{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"I Hate You. What's For Dinner? ","title":"Ep 19 - Unconditional Love and Identity Theft: Jamie Beth Cohen on Her Dad","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4178,"description":"A lot of us end up spending a significant part of our adult lives unpacking our childhoods. \n\nWe obviously do a lot of that in therapy, for ourselves and the parents we work with. Some, like our guest, use their creative work as part of processing their past.\n\nToday, we’re talking with Rob’s lifelong friend, author Jamie Beth Cohen. In our conversation, we revisit Jamie and Rob’s coming of age on the East Coast in the 80s and 90s, and do some speculating on what it’s like to be a kid these days. We also talk about the complicated work of conceptualizing parents who had both good and really harmful parts and how Jamie has infused her fiction and her essays with the difficult characters of her childhood.\n\nListen to the full episode to hear:\nHow both Jamie and Rob experienced not realizing that elements of their childhoods were not normal\nHow Jamie’s father’s spending and gambling shaped her relationship with money, work, and being an artist\nWhy Jamie couldn’t cut ties with her father and how it impacted the behaviors she tolerated in other relationships\nHow writing about her father has brought more understanding, but maybe not more peace\nThe stark differences in Jamie’s experience of being a teenaged girl and her daughter’s\n\nLearn more about Jamie Beth Cohen:\nWebsite\nInstagram: @wastedpretty\n\nLearn more about I Hate You. What’s For Dinner?\n\nLearn more about Gillian Boudreau, PhD.:\nWebsite\nInstagram @clearconnectionpsychology\n\nLearn more about Rob Galligan, PhD.:\nInstagram @dr.robert.galligan\n\nResources:\nWasted Pretty\nWhen the Identity Theft Is Coming from Inside the House - The Billfold\nWhen I Realized My Dad Didn't Want To Get Better – Kveller\nPerspectives: Mourning Without a Road Map - Pittsburgh Magazine","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D3tBXD86835pt7yVRDNdUrgGmElQKj6Sry24ZfP4t6o/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZTAz/ZTZmNTMzN2QzM2Iw/N2JjNzNlMzQ3ZTlm/OGQwNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}