A Podcast with Charlie Swenson - To Hell and Back

A Podcast with Charlie Swenson - To Hell and Back


Latest Episodes

Skillful Mind Training, Embodied – Episode 107
November 16, 2022

"In this episode, Nicole and Charlie tap into the wisdom that Cem Eren has gained from two decades of training elite NBA athletes, boxers, bodybuilders, beauty contestants, and ordinary humans of all

Identity Grammar - Episode 106
November 16, 2022

What shapes the syntax of Self? How does context inform our inner lexicons? Are we more than the sum of all our actions?

Skillful Grieving, Making Meaning from Suffering, and a Dinosaur – Episode 105
November 03, 2022

In this second of our two-episode conversation with Natalia Garcia about her grieving process over the years since the death of her two-year-old son

Who IS that Woman?! – Episode 104
October 27, 2022

Since Nicole joined Charlie as co-host, several long-time listeners have asked Charlie, Who IS that woman?!

In Her Own Words – Natalia Garcia on Coping with Loss and Trauma with Opposite Action and an Approach Lifestyle – Episode 103
October 21, 2022

In this weeks podcast, we reprise selected excerpts from those podcasts, capturing her words and her wisdom that grew out of this terrible loss. She inspires.

Long Grieving, Complicated Joy, and Flowers That Grow Around a Hole in the Heart – Episode 102
October 13, 2022

Now, five years since the loss of her child, Natalia returns to the podcast to talk about the longer arc of the process of grieving her son and things that have happened since then.

5 Years, 100 Episodes, 7 Lessons for Surviving Hell – Episode 101
October 06, 2022

In this episode, Charlie reflects on 100 episodes spent exploring human suffering.

The Long Reach of Loss – Suicide Outside the Immediate Family – Episode 100
September 29, 2022

In the final episode of our 4 part Series on coping with Suicide in the family, we hear from Teddys fianc Mariya. Mariyas developed a personal friendship with Ross and shares about that relationshi

A Brother and a Best Friend Lost to Suicide (Part 3) – Episode 99
September 22, 2022

In the 3rd of our 4 Part Series on coping with suicide in the family, we speak with Beths son, and Ross brother, Teddy.