Dr. Tara Narula and Jenny Bartoy Tackle Pain from All Sides

About this episode

Dr. Tara Narula and Jenny Bartoy discuss resilience and the impact of toxic relationships on well-being.

Dr. Tara Narula gives us a specific recipe in  The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being ,   while editor Jenny Bartoy collects stories of others, like her, who have cut off contact with toxic people, sometimes even parents, in  No Contact: Writing on Estrangement.  Taken together, these two conversations arm us with the tools to get through challenges that might just be out of our control. How we respond to them isn’t. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Zibby Owens

Guests: Dr. Tara Narula, Jenny Bartoy

Topics covered

• resilience
• estrangement
• toxic relationships
• health and well-being
• personal stories

Keywords

• resilience
• estrangement
• toxic people
• health
• well-being
• personal stories
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being, No Contact: Writing on Estrangement

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