Meg Kissinger

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ON THE PODCAST - Door County Pulse

Sep 6, 2024 | doorcountypulse.com | Meg Kissinger |Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Catch up on the latest podcasts from the team at the Peninsula Pulse at DoorCountyPulse.com/podcasts or wherever you listen. Lombardi Biographer David MaranissDavid Maraniss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist and biographer of presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, joins Myles Dannhausen Jr. on the podcast this week.
Muckraker Meg Kissinger searches out her family's past in her memoir

Feb 27, 2024 | ncronline.org | Christopher White |Jason Berry |Meg Kissinger

Meg Kissinger is pictured in a family portrait, far left in the top row. Kissinger, for many years a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative journalist, has written the memoir While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.
A family portrait of mental illness with Meg Kissinger

Feb 21, 2024 | savvy-psychologist.simplecast.com | Meg Kissinger |Monica Johnson

A family portrait of mental illness with Meg KissingerEpisode NotesDo you come from a family that has been marked by mental illness? Many of us do, but it's not always the mental illness that breaks us down, it's the silence. Meg Kissinger joins today's show to discuss her new book, While You Were Out, a story about family mental illness in an era of silence. Get your copy of While You Were Out on Amazon, Bookshop, or at your local bookstore.
Six Books That Might Change How You Think About Mental Illness

Nov 20, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Andrew Scull |Esmé Weijun Wang |Meg Kissinger

In 2021, Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, two of the world’s most highly lauded athletes, walked away from major competitions to protect their mental health. In a field that elevates “toughness” and “grit,” both drew major attention for candidly prioritizing wellness above achievement. Their decisions, and the headlines about them, reflected a new cultural willingness—in sports, in schools, and in the workplace—to be more genuine about mental well-being, seemingly replacing stigma with openness.
From Scarsdale

Oct 31, 2023 | audible.com | Dan O'Brien |Elise Loehnen |Meg Kissinger

From Scarsdale is an evocative and lyrical memoir of a haunted childhood in Scarsdale, New York. With a cancer diagnosis in his early forties, the author is compelled to revisit and resolve the mystery of his family’s sadness. The fourth of six children in an Irish-American household distinctly out-of-place in this affluent suburb of New York City, O’Brien grows up in a claustrophobic milieu of secrecy, lies, and mental illness.
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

Oct 20, 2023 | nextbigideaclub.com | Meg Kissinger |John Sargent |Scott Shane |Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe is a journalist, travel writer, and author of several nonfiction titles, such as Straphanger, Bottomfeeder, and The End of Elsewhere. He is also a contributor to an assortment of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and The Wall Street Journal. Below, Taras shares five key insights from his new book, The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past.
WHILE YOU WERE OUT

Oct 2, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Meg Kissinger

Journalist Meg Kissinger gives a stellar narration of her extraordinarily affecting memoir about growing up in the 1960s in a close-knit Irish-Catholic family of eight children, many of whom were afflicted with mental illness. Kissinger's father suffered from bipolar disorder, her mother was hospitalized for depression during Kissinger's childhood, and she lost a brother and sister to suicide.
Surviving the Tiger Pit: How a Journalist's Family Story Pushed Her to Report on a Failed Mental Health System

Sep 19, 2023 | mindsitenews.org | Meg Kissinger

An excerpt from While You Were Out, Meg Kissinger’s memoir of growing up in a family ravaged by mental illness and her experiences as a reporter investigating the failings of a system. When we were little, my sister Patty and I liked to pretend that ferocious tigers lurked in the space between our twin beds, just waiting to rip us to shreds. They stalked us at night with their razor-sharp fangs, growling and snorting and licking their chops.
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Sep 14, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Meg Kissinger

Award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger writes with informative zeal and deeply mined memory in WHILE YOU WERE OUT. This chronicle of her family’s mental disorders and their many tragic results underscores her strong advocacy for those facing similar chaotic life conditions. With seven siblings, Kissinger was apparently blessed in that her father had well-paid employment and her mother was a diligent stay-at-home wife.
While You Were Out

Sep 14, 2023 | zip06.com | Meg Kissinger

While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger If you loved Jeannette Wall's book The Glass Castle or Robert Kolker's book Hidden Valley Road, then you won't be able to put this book down! Meg's background as an investigative journalist serves her well as she recounts her family's struggles with mental illness in the '60s and '70s. Nurture or nature? There may never be easy answers, but Meg encourages the reader that only love and understanding can conquer this disease.