<p>Join Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Rich Francey as they discuss what the Future Tripping podcast is all about. In this short episode, Laura’s old friend Rich interviews her and she shares with us a little bit about herself, her work, and why she created this podcast. They reflect on the state of overwhelm so many of us are experiencing right now, and how we can identify strategies for staying present and trying not to future trip.</p>

Ed Yong: Overwhelm and Trauma in Journalism and Society

Do you know anyone who doesn’t feel overwhelmed right now? Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is an internationally renowned trauma expert and bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. She has helped people and systems, for over three decades, find their way through really hard times.  In this podcast, we will have conversations about what to do in the face of our overwhelm and how to do it, and we will be guided by listeners’ questions. Each week, Laura and a guest will discuss concrete strategies we can use to mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to bring our A-game to whatever we’re doing (or as close as we can get), and move beyond what can feel like permanent survival mode. Some weeks will be geared more towards adults, and others towards adolescents and anyone who loves, lives, or works with them. Together, we’ll focus on the merits of staying present, not missing out on today, and trying to avoid future tripping. We hope that Future Tripping will offer listeners insight into what is currently overwhelming them and tactical skills for both sustaining themselves and contributing, however much they’d like, to larger systemic and structural change.