Today Plus Everything

Clinical social worker (and host Ian Ebright's therapist) Theresa Rogers joins Today Plus Everything to talk about how we can better navigate the anxious times we're living in.  The two discuss how our formative years, dysfunctional conditions, and trauma get tangled up to form survival patterns that are no longer serving us in adult life—impeding and triggering our nervous system. The conversation explores examples of healthy and toxic leadership in politics, anxiety and depression, and includes insight from Theresa's 30 years of experience—inspired by the work of John Bowlby, Allan Schore, and the Polyvagal theory—as well as tips and a "live" meditation exercise. 

A journalist for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Esquire, historian, and award-winning author Sam Tanenhaus joins Today Plus Everything host and writer/director Ian Ebright (From the Sky, The Devil Needs a Fix) to talk about the present political crisis in the United States through a historical lens.The two discuss the famous televised debates between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal as a precursor to our deeply divided political discourse—as well as the rise and fall of the conservative movement, the Obama legacy, Trump's response to COVID-19, Attorney General Barr as enabler, the unidentified federal agents policing the streets of Portland, Biden's opportunity, and more.