April 3rd So much time and attention are given to a restaurant’s opening: Who’s the chef? How will the menu be different than everything that’s come before it? Who’s designing the space? Will there be craft beer or craft cocktails? We fill reservations books. We rush in to review. We Instagram furiously. But when a…
Category: Endings
“A Leader Defines Reality”: Katrina Blank Shares Her Chronic Illness Breakup Story
On our most recent double-episode, we covered breakups because of chronic illness. Here, writer Katrina Blank shares a bit more of the story she tells us in Part II about living with Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. This has been slightly edited for length and clarity. Why did you like Joey to begin with? The day…
Endings #5: I Got Broken Up With Because of My Chronic Illness, Part II
March 27th “It wasn’t just losing him with the breakup, but a lot of the dreams and hopes I had for the future. It was coming to terms with the idea that this illness might be chronic. That there was no fix.” – Katrina On Part II of our episode on breakups because of chronic…
Endings #4: Breakups About Chronic Illness (…and sex and babies)
March 20th On today’s show — the first of a two-part episode during our series on Endings — Jacqueline speaks with two women who recently underwent breakups they attribute to their chronic illnesses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Interstitial Cystitis. They both reached out to J after reading her Cosmopolitan essay, How I Learned…
Endings #3: Breaking Up is Hard To Do, with Sari Kamin
March 13th “When at the age of 31-yrs old my boyfriend of five years broke up with me I was deeply heartbroken but also stunned that I was no longer on the path of getting engaged, getting married, and having children by the age of 35. That was the course that I had seen so…
Endings #2: Curtains Up and Books Out, with Jen Glantz!
March 6th Making it look easy is the point, right? Writers, actors, and artists of all sorts tell stories about real life experiences, defending their choices, owning their truth, and leaving a trail of wisdom in their creatively-tuned path. We see them at the climax, the triumph, the TED talk — the ENDING. But what…
Endings #1: Friendship Through Divorce, with Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell
February 27th What’s a life experience you’re holding onto that you wish you could emotionally shut the door on? What’s holding you back? Who has helped guide you through growth the most? What positive new tactics or tools did you pick up to battle the tough stuff along the way? And do you wish the…
