Sara Bareilles On: The Feelings You Fear Might Destroy You, What Antidepressants Actually Did to Her Creativity, and Why There's Nothing to Fix
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Sara Bareilles On: The Feelings You Fear Might Destroy You, What Antidepressants Actually Did to Her Creativity, and Why There's Nothing to Fix

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 20261 hr 3 min

Plus: her complicated relationship with antidepressants, weathering fertility struggles, and aging in public. Sara Bareilles joins Dan to discuss her new album Good Grief, a record she made after losing three close friends — Chad Joseph, Gavin Creel, and poet Andrea Gibson. The conversation covers grief as a transformative force, medication and mental health, fertility struggles and miscarriage, the creative process as spiritual transmission, aging without intervention, and patriotism as grief. In this episode we talk about: Grief is a shortcut to the truth — it strips away distraction and forces presence "Name it to tame it"...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Pop songs generally cover romantic love. I've recently did a search for how many songs contain the words I want you. And I think, and this is a while ago, I think it was like scores, not hundreds of songs. However, there are some great pop songs that cover weightier,

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heavier stuff like grief. If you think about Let It Be, Paul McCartney sings about his late mother, Mother Mary. Also, artists like Beyonce and Kanye and Frank Ocean have written and song about grief. And now comes my friend, Sarah Bareilles, who has recorded a whole album, which comes

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out today, on the subject of grief. It's called Good Grief, and it is accompanied by a documentary, which is quite beautiful, and a whole tour. If you have never heard of Sarah, I don't know what's the matter with you, but if you've

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