Co-host Kristen Tideman and I work through the final two legs of Emmy van Dersen's triad — the impossible and the desirable — using Kristen's new motherhood, MS diagnosis, and ongoing religious change as real, lived test cases for the framework.

In the Patron-only second half, We move from naming what we can't have, to excavating the values underneath those wishes, to identifying what we actually can do about it — and end up somewhere more hopeful than either of us expected.

Highlights:

• The impossible vs. the merely difficult

• Extracting values from unmet wishes

• Religious change and lost sense-making

• MS diagnosis, grief, and clarified priorities

• Spiritual grounding after deconstruction

  
  

Anxious Times Episode Part 1⁠⁠

⁠⁠Anxious Times Episode Part 2⁠

⁠⁠⁠Anxious Times Episode Part 3

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