S4E8: Writing Your Heart Out
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On today’s episode, three writers -- Alondra Bobadilla, Asiyah Herrera, and Meredith Russo -- talk about the relationship between art and love, and how they use their creative work to explore ideas about dating, courtship, belonging, and commitment. All of them, in their own way, understand love and life by writing it. Email us at [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Meredith. |
| 0:02.0 | Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, |
| 0:06.0 | which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points, |
| 0:10.0 | Navigating Mental Health. |
| 0:11.0 | Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of |
| 0:14.2 | navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes. |
| 0:18.3 | Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between. |
| 0:29.0 | Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media. |
| 0:34.0 | Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | I've had some perfectly nice relationships, |
| 0:40.0 | but I haven't been able to make anything stick, |
| 0:42.0 | and so I would say that my relationship with |
| 0:44.8 | romance has been incredibly fraud. |
| 0:46.8 | Novelist Meredith Russo. |
| 0:48.8 | To a certain extent, my art remains a way for me to sort of do test runs in my brain of what I would like to have once I am able to get my hands on it. |
| 1:00.0 | From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Meredith Goldstein. So, Sometimes I can't imagine experiencing love without writing it. |
| 1:30.0 | Writing comes more naturally to me than romantic love itself. |
| 1:34.0 | In fact, it might be my first love. |
| 1:36.6 | So when I do love a person or lose a person, |
| 1:39.8 | I want to write it all down. I guess it's my way of trying to control the narrative or |
| 1:45.3 | at least figure it out. On today's show, three writers talk about the |
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