Send us a text Ever feel like the thing that “helps” you is the very thing that keeps you alone? That’s where Severn Lang lived for years—sipping ease, swallowing pain, and drifting further from the people who could save him. What follows is a rare, generous conversation about how addiction hides inside isolation, how grief calcifies into clutter, and how the right words at the right moment can turn a life. Severn grew up disconnected: a father battling schizophrenia who could preach to a cr...
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Send us a text Ever feel like the thing that “helps” you is the very thing that keeps you alone? That’s where Severn Lang lived for years—sipping ease, swallowing pain, and drifting further from the people who could save him. What follows is a rare, generous conversation about how addiction hides inside isolation, how grief calcifies into clutter, and how the right words at the right moment can turn a life. Severn grew up disconnected: a father battling schizophrenia who could preach to a cr...
From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian
Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
39 minutes
1 week ago
From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian
Send us a text A poet’s recovery story rarely starts with a bus up Third Avenue and a rule about not writing while high. Ours does. We sit down with classicist and translator Aaron Poochigian to trace a line from an 18-year-old’s epiphany reading Virgil, through the isolation of lockdown and a cocaine addiction, to a disciplined practice of forest bathing in Central Park that rekindled creativity, routine, and joy. Aaron makes a compelling case that poetry shouldn’t be confined to classrooms...
Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
Send us a text Ever feel like the thing that “helps” you is the very thing that keeps you alone? That’s where Severn Lang lived for years—sipping ease, swallowing pain, and drifting further from the people who could save him. What follows is a rare, generous conversation about how addiction hides inside isolation, how grief calcifies into clutter, and how the right words at the right moment can turn a life. Severn grew up disconnected: a father battling schizophrenia who could preach to a cr...
