Healing in the Mess: Storytelling, Friendship & Finding Love - Author of The Unlikely Village of Eden, Emma Nadler

This episode of Once Upon a Gene is a little like a cafeteria tray - pick what feeds you and leave what doesn't.

Chatting with the zesty, vivacious, and wildly insightful Emma Nadler - psychotherapist, author of The Unlikely Village of Eden, rare mom, and truth teller. Emma has a way of cracking you open with honesty and tenderness, then making you laugh through the tears.

We talk about:

• How storytelling helps us heal and connect

• Grief, Joy, Love - all living side by side

• The long-haul reality of caregiving and what it takes to keep going

• Friendship, community, and the absurdities that keep us human

• Finding meaning when life reroutes in unexpected ways

Emma’s memoir, The Unlikely Village of Eden, is one of those rare books that’s both heart-shattering and heart-rebuilding, leaving you changed in the best way.

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