Live with James Tippins
Understanding why you are like this has never once changed anybody.
One person. One real situation. One hour, live, and nobody pretending it resolves by the end.
Thursdays · 8:00 AM Eastern
This is what it sounds like.
Every week somebody writes in and it gets read out loud, whole, in their own words. These are the kinds of lines people send.
Everyone tells me how well I am doing and they are not being polite. I really am doing well. I do not miss him.Widowed twenty six months
I was always the smart one. That was the whole thing about me. I have not opened a book in six weeks and nobody has noticed yet.Twenty, sophomore year
I make more money than anyone I grew up with and I have never said out loud that I hate all of it. Not to my wife. Not to anyone.Forty one
We moved in together eight months ago and I still put makeup on before he wakes up. I have never told him that.Twenty six
I drive past my exit and sit in a parking lot for an hour before I go home. I have been doing it since February. The confusing part is that it works.Two kids, seven and four
I am thirty one and I sleep in the room I grew up in. Everyone thinks I am saving money. I have nine thousand dollars and no plan.Anonymous
My son stopped talking to me in February of last year. I have never asked him why. I do not know what I would do if he answered.Anonymous
I love her more than I have loved anything in my life and I sat in the Target parking lot and cried because I could not remember what I used to do on a Saturday.New mother, thirty two
I have done six years of therapy and I can explain my own patterns better than any of them can. Nothing has changed.Forty seven
Nothing is wrong. I did everything I said I was going to do. Since October I wake at four in the morning with my heart going and there is no thought attached to it.Retired at sixty one
People get advice. People get encouragement. People get a friend who wants the hard part to be over quickly so the evening can go back to normal.
What nobody gets is a full hour where someone stays on the actual thing, does not flinch, and is in no hurry at all to make it better.
No panel. No guest. No topic decided in advance. One person's words, read out in full, and then the work, in the open, in front of whoever shows up.
Nobody gets fixed by the end. That is the format, not a disclaimer.
Anonymous unless you say otherwise. Nothing publishes automatically, and a person reads every one.
You do not have to be in crisis. Most of the ones worth an hour come from people whose lives look completely fine.
Send yours in