Shelter in Place

In the face of feeling disappointed with herself for making the same parenting mistakes over and over again in this time of living in close quarters with her family, Laura turns to BJ Fogg's work and writing, that shows us that the key to big long-term behavior change is forming tiny habits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Giving Tuesday, a day that is all about being generous, Laura looks to recent research on scarcity and generosity for guidance during this time of both personal and global scarcity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this special bonus episode, recent Shelter in Place guest and best-selling, award-winning author Nina LaCour invite us to turn to words and creation for hope in this time of fear, uncertainty, and disappointment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate this week's challenge of dreaming and gratitude, Laura brings you a very special episode with your stories of what this time has been like for you, and how you're dreaming, grieving, and finding hope in the midst of the struggles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this final day of the week's Gratitude and Dreaming challenge, Laura considers how the challenge has helped her to dream not just for herself, but for what her future could look like for her and her family. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this birthday episode, Laura continues this week's gratitude and dreaming challenge and shares how being grateful has given her small wins, which have gone a long way to helping her process the loss of the past week and have given her a sense of progress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this third installment of a week dedicated to dreaming big crazy dreams and being grateful, Laura confronts her own cynicism about generosity, and how a recent study showing a link between gratitude and generosity and Laura's own experience of her family losing their source of income has pushed her to think about generosity in a new light. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second installment of this week's invitation to dream and be grateful, Laura continues to navigate her family's recent loss of income, and consider what it means to create art in a world where she is among the non-essential. She turns to Queersplaining podcast host Callie Wright to find practical solutions for creating art you can live off of during the time of COVID-19. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Laura continues to process the losses of the past week, a good friend challenges her to see this time as an opportunity to dream. In this episode, Laura invites listeners to join her in dreaming big about our lives now and beyond the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the news came down about the mandate to shelter in place, Bay Area writer Laura Joyce Davis decided to mark this moment in history by chronicling her experience in real time. In each short episode, she draws inspiration from artists, scholars, and thinkers to find her way to hope and connection even as she lays bare the fears, challenges, and losses of this time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On today's Story Saturday, Laura talks with bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award-winning author Nina LaCour, who started this time of sheltering in place in major transition. Laura and Nina have known each other for sixteen years, and talk about how COVID-19 has changed their lives, their writing, and what they hope is ahead for all of us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Laura processes her own grief over two major losses this week, she looks to the science of tears and Professor Ad Vingerhoets, one of the world's leading researchers on crying, to understand what we need for our tears to help us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today, Laura shares some big news in this little episode. As her family faces the reality of unemployment and a future they can't control, Laura considers what it means to sit in this moment of fatigue and uncertainty while staying focused on the things that matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

COVID-19 has meant a drop in greenhouse gas emissions, but those effects won't last if we go back to our previous ways of living when this is all over. On this Earth Day, Laura steps away from the politics of climate change and dreams about how we can find our way to a cleaner, more sustainable world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's story is a special episode from Out There, a podcast exploring big questions through intimate stories outdoors. The story originally aired back in the fall of 2017, when producer Maya Kroth was living and reporting in Mexico City, but in many ways, it parallels to the time we’re living in now. You can find this and other stories like it at OutTherePodcast.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.