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Come As You Are Podcast

How much do childhood wounds shape who we become? What does it mean to heal? How can you be a deeply feeling person in this world and not lose your mind? We"ll get into all of that and more. Thanks for spending some time with me. allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com

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44:56

Dear Life

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/12/07

Four years ago today I was on a plane, trying to stay calm. I’d had to throw stuff in a bag and get on an app to find a flight that left a day earlier than the flight I had booked, which was a thing I did in a Lyft on the way to LAX. It wasn’t the plan. The plan was that I was going to fly back to NYC the following day, December 8th, to be there when the hospital discharged my mother into hospice care at home. I’d spent the last couple of days doing the paperwork and switching her into the hospice

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73:11

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, Pig

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Last week I wrote about what it’s like growing up and existing as a girl and a woman in this world. The response from so many women who relate was overwhelming, enraging, heartbreaking, and also incredible. The “Quiet, Piggy” moment touched a deep nerve in many women across all kinds of borders, because so many of us felt it in our bones. So many of us know exactly what it’s like when a man attacks you, verbally or otherwise, because you are not behaving the way he wants you to behave. Because you

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53:37

Man v Bear But Not Like That

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/11/10

There’s a certain kind of person who is so concerned with their own needs, how they’re feeling, and what’s good for them, they really don’t have the capacity to take in much of anything else. You might know some people like this. They can be very charming and charismatic, but after a short time you’ll realize their favorite topic — and the one they circle back to again and again — is them.When they aren’t talking about what’s good for them or what they’re excited about or looking forward to (world

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81:37

The I Behind the Eye

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/11/02

“We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the ‘I’ behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.”― Anaïs NinThis week’s essay and this podcast episode are about the “I” behind the “eye.” You, me, any of us — we are always walking out the door carrying our frames of reference with us, our perspectives, our ideas about how the world works, what we have to offer, whether anyone wants to hear from us. So much of what we’re seeing is influenced by what we expect to see, or by the way we

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82:03

Mojo Dojo Casa White House

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/10/26

One of the harder things about life right now is the constant onslaught of news that feels insane, impossible, heartbreaking, outrageous, mind-boggling, or fill-in-the-blank with your chosen word. We really aren’t built for this and it’s so incredibly sad, because it doesn’t have to be this way, and it shouldn’t be this way. It could be so beautiful.I hope you are taking care of yourself, consciously stepping away from the madness sometimes, putting your phone down, getting outside if you can,

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58:20

Mamaw My Ass

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Saturday I went to a No Kings event with one of my closest friends. She’s more my sister than my friend, we’ve been making good trouble together since the 80s. I am so fortunate to have a few people in my life I’ve known since childhood, or maybe it isn’t good fortune, maybe it’s that I hate goodbyes and hold on hard to the people I love. I’m a lifer unless you’re an asshat. It’s such a wonderful thing to have people who can say, “Remember that time…?” And then mention a thing that happened back in

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77:54

Elbows Up

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/10/13

If you’re new, hi and welcome. I’m so glad you’re here. You might be wondering what’s happening. I don’t mean in this country - I wonder what’s happening in this country every day - I mean with this podcast. Every week I write an essay, and then a couple of days later I record a talk about the topics I wrote about - after I’ve had a chance to read the responses and be in conversations with people - and often commiserate about the insanity of existing right now. This week I wrote about my son, and

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72:46

Of Mice and Men

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/10/06

I would imagine most of us have at least one childhood memory that has to do with cruelty - and feeling unsure about what to make of it. Being little in a big world is not always easy, especially if the situation at home is chaotic and uncertain. Sometimes kids are dealing with things that are hard to talk about, and the feelings come out sideways and twisted. Sometimes, heartbreaking as it is, kids are dealing with violence or neglect, and it makes them feel weak and small. Then, when they see weak

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82:42

A Devilish Escalation

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/09/28

Hello friends. I write to you from my couch, in my pajamas at 2 p.m. on a Saturday, under a blanket, with a migraine. It’s a beast - so far it has blasted through my daily medication Topamax, and the Rizatriptan I took yesterday because I could tell I had one breaking through - and even the Benadryl I took before bed because I could feel I still wasn’t okay. I was in agony all night and did the barely-sleeping “bed hustle” - then got up to drive my daughter to self-defense. In my pajamas. She did

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59:59

It Could Be So Much Better Than This

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/09/15

Friends, this week’s podcast episode is not for kids - meaning please don’t listen if you have kids within earshot. I want to give you a content warning because I talked about SA and all kinds of current events that aren’t easy for any of us, so if you need to pass on this one, please take care of yourself. There’s nothing you can’t read below, however. I feel like I am in a world that is becoming harder to comprehend by the day. I know I am not alone in that experience, and I know this is painful

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70:31

Roadtrip to Hades

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/09/07

There are things you can control, and things you can’t. About 98% of things go in the second column. As someone who used to try to manage or predict how other people were going to feel, and as someone who believed I could keep myself safe if I continuously scanned the environment for danger - I’ve given this a lot of thought. There are really only two things you can control - the way you respond to whatever is happening around you, and what you decide to focus on. Here in the states, everyone I know

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83:14

Off the Page with Dana DuBois

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/09/03

If you are a newer subscriber, you may be wondering what this is. I’m so happy you’re here, and I hope you’re going to love this as much as I do. Once in a while I do a Come As You Are Conversation where I go “off the page” with a writer I love. So far I have had absolutely incredible conversations with the fantastic Paul Crenshaw, my beloved soul sister Dani Shapiro and the phenomenal Kate Mapother. I could geek out all day talking to other writers about writing, and the conversations always lead

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32:09

We Need to Go Back to the Beginning

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/09/01

Of all the things that break my heart in this country - and there are many - our unwillingness to pass sane gun control legislation and keep our children safe at school is at the very top of the list. It is hard to describe how awful it is as a mother to get texts from your kids during lockdowns - a thing I have experienced with both of my children - and feel panicked and powerless and have nothing but the word please pumping through your veins. This is not a normal way to live.It is not okay that

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79:08

Covfefe, the Musical

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/08/24

This week’s essay (and therefore this podcast episode) is about things that are a matter of opinion - like whether scrambled eggs with ketchup on the side is the way to go - (I vote yes and so does Matthew McConaughey, apparently, while President Obama has very strong feelings that ketchup is for kids) - and things that are not a matter of opinion, like whether the Smithsonian should focus less on “how bad slavery was” and more on America’s whiteness. Sorry, I meant “brightness.” Pretty sure I was

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76:16

You Do Not "Owe" Your Husband Sex

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/08/18

Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those action movies where there are those six random people who somehow know the world is ending - you know the ones. They have eleven hours to get the word out, and the grid is down and the freeways are jammed with abandoned cars because people had to take off running from the aliens or the asteroids or the zombies - or whatever it is that’s causing the threat. Whenever these six people manage to come up with a plan and they break into some government facility or

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59:43

The Dark Side of the Moon

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/08/09

There are so many things in life that can be debilitating. We really aren’t built for sustained stress, we’re built for short bursts of it - and I’m talking physiologically here. We’re meant to be able to run from the oft-referenced saber-toothed tiger, to race our asses off like our life depends on it because it does, and then to dive into a cave and collapse, catching our breath and waiting until the tiger moves onto other prey - knowing we’ll live to see another day, or at least another

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77:14

The Source Code is the Same

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/08/03

Friends, you cannot talk about Epstein without talking about depravity. If you are a survivor of abuse, please decide whether this is an episode that makes sense for you. This was a rough week for those of us who have been assaulted, and I want you to be gentle with yourself. This conversation is about the system underneath a culture that produces a predatory worldview. People who treat the vulnerable in our society as less-than, who believe the planet is theirs to plunder, who find pleasure in

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63:24

Some Kind of Liminal Space

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/07/27

This is a conversation about love and loss, about death and dying, about family cycles and family secrets. It’s about the power of coming together to honor someone’s life, the way it helps to mourn with a group of people who also loved the person you love. It’s about the way a place can elicit so many feelings inside you, just the way a certain smell can take you somewhere, instantly. It’s about people who love you all the way, and how it breaks your heart when they go, because of course it

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54:16

I'll Be Waving Forever

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/07/19

This is a talk about losing people we love with our entire hearts. It’s so painful, but we don’t last forever, and neither does anyone else. When we lose people who have loved us unconditionally, the way my Aunt Louise loved me, it really hurts. If you’re someone who has lost a number of important people in a short amount of time (this can happen when you hit the “middle years”) one loss can open the portal to all the others. It’s like a river of grief and somehow you have to learn how to let the

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72:57

Watch Your Head

Come As You Are Podcast ·

2025/07/13

This week’s episode is about the things we can protect our children against and the things we cannot. I want to tell you that I cried more in this episode than any other, there was nothing I could do about it, and I think that’s appropriate so I left it in. Our new rescue dog Rufus was in the room with me because he was not okay with any other scenario. You will hear him tearing around in the background for the first two minutes providing a little bit of needed joy and the good kind of mayhem -

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