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Family Secrets

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Family Secrets

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Forever punctuated by shame, secrecy, and danger, Isaac's search to know himself has always been a precarious journey. But as he walks the rocky road toward self-acceptance, he must reconcile his need to be both strong and vulnerable.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on I Heart. I'm going to explore

0:06.8

the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions. Like,

0:13.6

can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain

0:20.9

steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman.

0:27.4

On the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.0

Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception.

0:38.1

I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal.

0:43.3

Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fan mail count when she discovered a

0:47.5

terrible secret. I saw a hidden folder and I opened it with the help that I just see.

0:54.4

Listen to season two of betrayal on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

1:01.2

podcasts. Family secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. This episode contains the

1:08.3

discussion of suicide. Listen to discretion is advised. So many stories half told and half heard.

1:18.4

So many grim intimations. So many obfuscating euphemisms. We were a classic New England family

1:26.4

incapable of discussing such things openly. Everything enveloped in a haze of mystery and shame.

1:34.5

There was nothing I could do with the questions that I had, the unmanageable anger and fear and

1:40.3

nameless other feelings I was having. No place to put it all. So I kept it inside.

1:47.4

When you can't talk about something, you're prevented from naming and describing it,

1:52.4

from making it real. And what you can't name and describe and make real becomes infinite and

1:58.2

limitless and impossible to decipher or resolve because it can expand to fill your whole life

2:05.3

and self to its tiniest corners or it can shrink to nothing. Nothing being the size of things that

2:13.5

are not real. You are alone with it, with yourself, with this unsolvable problem.

2:25.6

That's Isaac Fitzgerald, frequent contributor to the Today Show and author of The New York Times

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