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A little one-on-one time with Sarah and Miranda! A fun chit-chatty check-in about vasectomies, the third kid question, the weird pressure of turning 40, why Sarah "doesn't get" Hawaii, mole moms, hopping on the 'crone train, and calendar reminders gone wild. Plus, a big announcement!

How To Catch A Mole by Marc HamerPoser by Claire DedererKrtek The Mole, Clementine, Psychic Sister

Columnist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton returns to give the inside scoop on her recent profile of Dr. Becky. Sarah, Miranda and KJM dive deep into what’s great (and maybe no so great) about the advice Dr. Becky doles out, and Kathryn explains what ultimately surprised her most about spending time with Dr. Becky and the “Good Inside” parent community. 

Links:


KJM’s NY Magazine Profile of Dr. Becky.


More thoughts about the profile in her Cut column, Brooding.


Dr. Becky on Instagram

Sarah and Miranda are joined by Rebecca Kronman, a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of Plant Parenthood, a community that explores the intersection of psychedelics and the family. She talks about the importance of set and setting, the false dichotomy between healing and joy, and about how psychedelics help some parents heal intergenerational trauma and connect more easily with their children by tapping them into a more child-like perspective.


Links:


Rebecca Kronman of Plant Parenthood


Miranda’s feature on Mushroom Moms


Sarah’s Cut piece Moms Gone Wild


Study: Your Brain on LSD Looks A Lot Like A Baby’s


Santo Daime


Ismail L. Ali of MAPS


Fireside Project Trip Support Hotline


How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 


Global Psychedelic Society 



Culture Recs:


The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
The Hidden Life of Pets show on Netlfix

LitHub contributing editor Janet Manley joins us to talk about the postpartum comedy with a horror twist that started it all, 2018’s Tully. We discuss how the conversation around the postpartum period has changed in six years, what the New York Times got wrong about this film, and what we would go back and offer our postpartum selves.

Links:

Janet’s newsletter, Kafka’s Baby

Janet’s coverage of the movie here and here

Stupid NYT review

Better Vulture review

Book Recs:


Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot

Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch

Julia Fine’s The Upstairs House

With author and essayist Lydia Kiesling, we talk about the conflict in Gaza, which has taken the lives of tens of thousands of our fellow mothers and their children. We explore the ways that motherhood has the potential to awaken activism, about feeling frozen, helpless or overwhelmed, as well as how we can take our tender hearts and protective instincts and direct them towards activism and real change.

LINKS: - United Nations report on Gaza Casualties March 12, 2024

- UNRWA report more children killed since Oct 7 than 4 years of conflict world wide. 

- Birds of Gaza

- Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

- Lydia’s Link Doc

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Author and New York Magazine writer Emily Gould joins Sarah and Miranda to discuss her controversial personal essay, The Lure of Divorce, published in The Cut last month. We tackle the current divorce discourse, the work it takes to support our own mental health, what it’s like to write so intimately and so publicly at the same time, and whether it’s “basic” to be married right now.

LINKS: 


Emily’s piece The Lure of Divorce in the Cut 


Excerpt from Leslie Jamison’s Splinters in the New Yorker


Emily’s profile of Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted”


All Fours by Miranda July



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