July 10th Very few couples will ever get to say they’ve made it to sixty-nine years of marriage. As we explore how to find and maintain loving relationships of all sorts here on Love Bites, it seems only fitting that when we have one of those couples at hand, we ask them how they did…
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From Kosher to a Ham, with Eli Rosen (New Beginnings #5)
June 5th A career change can be a difficult thing, especially when leaving behind the financial security of life as an attorney for the uncertainty and instability of life as an artist. But what if you were also leaving behind your marriage, family, and the community you were indoctrinated into all at the same time,…
Losing My Religion, with Aimee DeLong (New Beginnings #2)
May 15th What happens after you realize you were born into a system that you don’t believe in? How do you discover what you really think? How do you escape from all you’ve ever known? How do you find the confidence to express the new person you want to become? Where do you find a…
Talking Empty Nests with Our Moms for Mother’s Day! (New Beginnings #1)
May 8th How does the relationship between mother and child change when the child moves out of the house? What does mom get to reclaim for herself, or what new things may she welcome? In celebration of Mother’s Day (!), we’ve lured our moms onto the show to talk us through this unique kind of…
Be Your Most Extreme You… in Moderation! With Sarah Robb O’Hagan!
Sometimes being the most Extreme You means saying “no”, pulling towards the middle, and chilling out a bit.
Fostering Healthy Families, with Author and Foster Family Advocate Regina Calcaterra, Esq.
Listen When we discuss family love, we refer to biological families by default. But what about foster family relationships? What does it take for them to succeed, and who suffers the most when they fail? On today’s show, we welcome Regina Calcaterra, the co-author of Girl Unbroken and the memoir Etched in Sand. Regina shares how the…
There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters!
November 28th How do the relationships we form with our siblings shape us as adults? What happens when we don’t identify with the roles our parents assign us within our sibling group? And how do our relationships with our siblings change as our parents age? On today’s show, Jacqueline’s sisters Jessica and Maggie Raposo join…
Love, Loss, and What We’re (Not) Eating! with Lindsay Benner
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN When a job, a relationship, or a tradition ends… how do you know how to properly mourn it? When do you lean into the grief, and when do you pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again? Today, we welcome performer Lindsay Benner to the show to discuss…
The Shepherd’s View: Fatherly Love, Land, and Loss with James Rebanks
November 7th Our relationships with our parents are fraught with complication. There is just too much — for better or for worse — that we can inherit from them. Even if they’re ceaselessly loving. Even if they’re largely absent from our lives. Even if we resist. On today’s show — the first of our five-week exploration of…