Tanya Frank's guest appearances

Tanya Frank

Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books

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Dr. Dan speaks to writer and mother Tanya Frank about her new book ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood.  Tanya and Dr. Dan discuss Tanya’s compassionate, heartrending memoir about her quest to understand her son’s journey through psychosis. One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach—gentle and full of promise—in the grips of what the psychiatrists would later label a psychotic break. Suddenly, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach’s world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach’s various and changing psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya struggles to find support while navigating broken mental healthcare systems, first in California and then in her native London during lockdown.Dr. Dan and Tanya discuss this compelling story about mental health and the power of a mother’s love. This episode is an important listen for May and Mental Health Awareness Month because the discussion will help families dealing with many diverse and difficult parenting experiences and circumstances. Today’s show is a powerful and provocative exploration of love, acceptance, mental illness, and fear.Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode).Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter).Listen, follow, and leave us a review on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Wondery, or wherever you like to listen!Don’t forget, you can hear every episode one week early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+ in the @WonderyMedia App.For more information:www.exactlyrightmedia.com www.drdanpeters.comFor podcast merch:www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shopSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Dan speaks to writer and mother <a href="https://www.tanyafrank.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Tanya Frank </a>about her new book <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393531886?fbclid=IwAR1I0Ml3zZog_p20uCVWKX4iwvY411urufo-zjfawXm0TIdoJjXM2n3wpzY" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood.</a>  Tanya and Dr. Dan discuss Tanya’s compassionate, heartrending memoir about her quest to understand her son’s journey through psychosis. One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach—gentle and full of promise—in the grips of what the psychiatrists would later label a psychotic break. Suddenly, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach’s world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach’s various and changing psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya struggles to find support while navigating broken mental healthcare systems, first in California and then in her native London during lockdown.Dr. Dan and Tanya discuss this compelling story about mental health and the power of a mother’s love. This episode is an important listen for May and Mental Health Awareness Month because the discussion will help families dealing with many diverse and difficult parenting experiences and circumstances. Today’s show is a powerful and provocative exploration of love, acceptance, mental illness, and fear.Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode).Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter).Listen, follow, and leave us a review on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Wondery, or wherever you like to listen!Don’t forget, you can hear every episode one week early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+ in the<a href="https://www.instagram.com/WonderyMedia/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> @WonderyMedia</a> App. For more information:<a href="http://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.exactlyrightmedia.com</a> <a href="http://www.drdanpeters.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.drdanpeters.com</a>For podcast merch:<a href="http://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shop</a> See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Zig-Zag Boy: Mental Health and Motherhood with Tanya Frank

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we chat with author and educator Tanya Frank. Tanya has worked as a college and university lecturer in the UK and taught middle school children, teens, and elders in the US. She has also trained as a wildlife guide in California and has been an advocate for people with lived experience of psychosis. Tanya’s work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, as well as appearing in literary journals, including KCET Departures and Sinister Wisdom. In this interview, we talk about Tanya’s recently released book entitled Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go, which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach, who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old. The book is a heartfelt and beautifully written account of dealing with mental distress and speaks movingly and honestly about the family’s struggles with broken healthcare systems in the US and the UK. *** Thank you for being with us to listen to the podcast and read our articles this year. MIA is funded entirely by reader donations. If you value MIA, please help us continue to survive and grow. To find the Mad in America podcast on your preferred podcast player, click here

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we chat with author and educator <a href="https://www.tanyafrank.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Tanya Frank</a>. Tanya has worked as a college and university lecturer in the UK and taught middle school children, teens, and elders in the US. She has also trained as a wildlife guide in California and has been an advocate for people with lived experience of psychosis. Tanya’s work has appeared in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/25/this-feels-more-like-spin-the-bottle-than-science-my-mission-to-find-a-proper-diagnosis-and-treatment-for-my-sons-psychosis" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Guardian</a>, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/books/review/zig-zag-boy-tanya-frank.html?searchResultPosition=2" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/12/13/why-im-holding-on-tight-to-my-adult-son-when-other-parents-are-letting-go/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>, as well as appearing in literary journals, including <a href="https://www.kcet.org/history-society/tanya-frank-wooed-by-the-weather-terrain-and-girl-down-the-block" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">KCET Departures</a> and <a href="https://www.tanyafrank.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SinisterWisdomopt.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sinister Wisdom</a>. In this interview, we talk about Tanya’s recently released book entitled <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393531886?fbclid=IwAR1I0Ml3zZog_p20uCVWKX4iwvY411urufo-zjfawXm0TIdoJjXM2n3wpzY" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go</a>, which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach, who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old. The book is a heartfelt and beautifully written account of dealing with mental distress and speaks movingly and honestly about the family’s struggles with broken healthcare systems in the US and the UK. *** Thank you for being with us to listen to the podcast and read our articles this year. MIA is funded entirely by reader donations. If you value MIA, <a href="https://www.madinamerica.com/donate/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">please help us</a> continue to survive and grow. To find the Mad in America podcast on your preferred podcast player, <a href="https://pod.link/1212789850" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>

Tanya Frank - Zig Zag Boy: My Family's Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare

Author Tanya Frank joins Zibby to discuss her gut-wrenching and compassionate new book Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, which chronicles her son Zach’s sudden and inexplicable psychotic break at age 19 and her journey to accepting the mysteries of his altered states. Tanya talks about the day of the psychotic break and what her son had been like before it (precocious, kind, and UCLA-bound), her fear that their move to the US impacted him negatively, and her desperate quest to find an answer. She also shares her thoughts on our flawed medical system and archaic mental health laws and gives an update on Zach.Purchase on Zibby's Bookshop: http://bit.ly/3SIhFfKPurchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/41AuhJVSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author Tanya Frank joins Zibby to discuss her gut-wrenching and compassionate new book Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, which chronicles her son Zach’s sudden and inexplicable psychotic break at age 19 and her journey to accepting the mysteries of his altered states. Tanya talks about the day of the psychotic break and what her son had been like before it (precocious, kind, and UCLA-bound), her fear that their move to the US impacted him negatively, and her desperate quest to find an answer. She also shares her thoughts on our flawed medical system and archaic mental health laws and gives an update on Zach.Purchase on Zibby's Bookshop: <a href="http://bit.ly/3SIhFfK" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3SIhFfK</a>Purchase on Bookshop: <a href="https://bit.ly/41AuhJV" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/41AuhJV</a>Subscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter <a href="https://zibbyowens.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8aaa1ce151a09216fdc1d6414&amp;id=4cf0ef4d3c" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch <a href="https://www.bonfire.com/store/zibby-owens/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. <a href="https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Tanya Frank, ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank by Poets &amp; Writers