An intimate and transformative dialogue between one of the best storytellers of our time and their teacher, a therapist who has spent a lifetime figuring out how to be human.
How Will I Live? is a 10-part limited series podcast that explores poet Andrea Gibson’s reckoning with their cancer diagnosis through intimate conversations with their therapist Dr Julie Colwell and journalist Erica Anderson.
Together they explore the tools Julie created and Andrea credited for keeping them alive during their struggles with crippling anxiety, mental illness and even suicidality. But, Andrea’s diagnoses of aggressive cancer and the foundation of years of working with Julie's tools, initiated a sudden transformation in their relationship to living.
Dr. Julie Colwell, Andrea’s therapist for 20 years, also wrestled with a cancer diagnosis; she survived colon cancer in 2018.
How Will I Live? is hosted by journalist Erica Anderson, herself a client of Dr. Colwell for over a decade. She acts as a gentle guide and willing participant in the exploration of Dr Colwell’s tools.
These shockingly insightful individuals explore the questions:
How can we all live a little more without dying first? How do we stay alive on the planet knowing the darkness and struggle that is here? How, how do we lean into a life that is worth living?
** We are raising produciton funds to finish the podcast and release in the fall of 2026. Your donation will go towards paying our creators, editors, engineers, and composers. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.**
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