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"She saw the human behind my lived experience": police and sex trade survivors build trust in Newfoundland
For decades, the relationship between police, people in the sex trade, and the media has been fraught with mistrust and mutual suspicion. Over the last 13 months, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, an organization called Thrive, and CBC NL have been working together to forge trust. What they’ve accomplished is extraordinary.
Wounded and lucky: Find out how the N.L. sex trade and police have forged a surprising bond
Police, media and people in the sex trade don't often trust each other. In N.L., that's changing.
'How's it going?' and other important questions: the case for small talk
Tapestry listener Nikki Reklitis thinks small talk gets a bad rap. She says casual conversations with neighbours and strangers, have gotten her through some very rough times.
McMindfulness: how capitalism hijacked the Buddhist teaching of mindfulness
Ronald Purser, a Buddhist teacher and a professor of management, advises us to approach mindfulness techniques with a critical eye. He says mindfulness practices have been co-opted by capitalist interests, freeing corporations and governments from responsibility for the larger issues at play in our stressful society.
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Mary Hynes on Tapestry's most memorable moments
Mary Hynes recalls some of Tapestry's most memorable interviews and behind the scenes stories with Coleman Barks, Irish writer John O'Donohue and musicians Al Green and Victor Wooten.
McMindfulness and the case for small talk
Buddhist teacher and professor of management Ronald Purser makes the case that mindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality. And a Tapestry listener argues that small talk is anything but frivolous.
Retired minister moves his congregation outside - literally - as a forest therapist
When Bruce Sweet retired as a United Church minister, he was on the lookout for a new way to connect with people in a spiritual sense. His new congregation includes trees as well as people, thanks to a Japanese practice called forest bathing.
'I was suffering a lot': TV reporter explains why it's hard to accept compliments about her new body
After an intense abdominal surgery, Ginella Massa says people assumed her weight loss was something that she must have wanted. It wasn’t. She talks about what it was like to grapple with those assumptions and adjust to her new body.
Stop trying to do it all yourself: family therapist says self-help only goes so far
Whether it’s yoga, mindfulness techniques or home remedies, there seems to be a DIY solution for every problem. Dalhousie professor Michael Ungar says that’s misleading. True resilience is about more than just the individual.
Resilience
Retired United Church minister Bruce Sweet becomes a forest therapist. Dalhousie professor Michael Ungar weighs in on the true path to resilience. And TV reporter Ginella Massa on how she handled "compliments" about her new body.
Tapestry at 25: tattooed pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber had struggled with addiction, and considered herself a foul-mouthed, selfish type … until she felt a call to become an ordained Lutheran pastor. Spoiler alert: she was, in part, appalled. But she answered the call, and has become a central figure in spirituality in the 21st century
Tapestry at 25: the atheist evangelical minister known as "Adam"
This is an interview that Tapestry producers have never forgotten. In February 2011, listeners heard the distorted voice of a man on a payphone who went by the codename “Adam.” His real identity was a secret because he was an Evangelical minister who had stopped believing in God. Also, an update from "Adam".
Tapestry at 25: tattooed pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber and 'Adam'
This week on Tapestry@25, we go back in time with two award-winning interviews. Two people who were on roughly the same path – but headed in completely different directions.
Celebrating 25 years of Tapestry
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBC's Tapestry, you'll be hearing some of our most popular and most requested interviews from over the years.
"I have had sex and Jesus still loves me": navigating sex and morality on The Bachelorette
The latest seasons of The Bachelorette and The Bachelor sparked vigorous discussions about sex, “purity culture”, and the double standards for men and women. Political journalist Li Zhou weighs in.
Loving Guy Fieri and Meat Loaf: the case for taking the guilt out of guilty pleasures
After a bad breakup, writer Rax King started to think differently about the things she hadn’t allowed herself to enjoy. She says we should disregard the naysayers and unapologetically embrace the things we love.
Unapologetic: embracing what you love
Writer Rax King explains why she stopped paying attention to critics and embraced her own "guilty pleasures". And political journalist Li Zhou analyzes the interplay of sex, religion, and morality in the world of the Bachelor and the Bachelorette.
When the biological clock gets loud: three perspectives on the pressure to have kids
Writer Lauren McKeon, life coach Laurie Sanci and writer Nav Alang share three different perspectives on the experience of being childless. From cultural pressures to societal expectations about women, all three are finding ways to navigate a life without kids.
Tapestry at 25: gospel singer Mavis Staples
We chased Staples for two years before the singer agreed to an interview. This 2011 conversation is rich with her reflections on the power of music to lift the human spirit, stories about her family’s close connection with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tapestry at 25: Irish poet John O'Donohue
It might be the single-most requested interview we’ve ever broadcast. In this conversation from 2004, John O’Donohue shares his poetry and soulful wisdom about what it means to live a good life and die a good death.
Tapestry goes on the Silent Hike, a musical take on walking meditation
The Silent Hike is a group walking meditation created by New York composer Murray Hidary. It’s all-quiet on the outside - but a world of wonder, once you put on the headphones.
Sports as religion: Saskatchewan's Rider Nation and their devotion to the game
Over the years, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have built one of the most loyal and devoted fan bases in the CFL. Speaking to Tapestry host Mary Hynes, Saskatoon professor Chris Hrynkow makes the case for why football fandom in the province could be considered a "civil religion."
Secular rituals
The state of the world making you a little anxious? Tapestry has your back this week with secular rituals: the traditions that human beings find soothing, or helpful, or somehow inspiring, in a world that can put you on edge.
A new type of family: six housemates on the highs and lows of communal living
Six friends pooled their resources and bought a house together. It was a creative way to break in to Toronto’s intense housing market, but their main motivation was to create a new kind of household in a society that idealizes romantic partnerships and nuclear families.
Longing for loneliness: a writer on the beauty of solitude
Writer Miciah Bay Gault grew up with an intense sense of solitude and loneliness. She didn't always love the feeling. But now, amid her busy days as a teacher and a parent to three children, she longs to feel lonely and realizes it remains a core part of her identity.
