Between Rooms Podcasts

Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode of Between Rooms , Elizabeth takes on the midlife topic nobody properly warned us about: perimenopause, menopause, and the full-body shitshow women were expected to endure politely. Born in 1973, Elizabeth grew up hearing older women refer vaguely to “the change,” but nobody handed over the real survival guide: hot flashes that can make you nauseous, sleepless...

Send us Fan Mail Before inviting other women to share their stories on Between Rooms , I wanted to begin with one of my own. In this solo episode, I read from “The Mentor,” a chapter from my memoir about the women who shape us, the rooms where we learn who we might become, and the complicated ways guidance, admiration, ambition, and longing can live together. This is not the most catastrophic room...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of Between Rooms , Elizabeth McCracken introduces the emotional heart of the podcast: what happens when the woman everyone counts on finally stops performing strength and starts telling the truth. This solo episode is not the whole story, but the invitation — into conversations about grief, burnout, family complexity, identity, resilience, and rebuilding a lif...

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 1 opens with the narrator on the first Monday of her retirement, standing inside the newly built life she has carefully designed after decades of holding everything and everyone together. The chapter begins with the image of an old blanket preserved in a cedar chest, a quiet object that carries the weight of childhood memory and bodily recognition. From there, the narrativ...

Send us Fan Mail Between Rooms is a podcast about the spaces we survive, the ones we outgrow, and the ones we finally learn to build for ourselves. I’m Elizabeth McCracken, author of Between Rooms , and each week I sit down with women who have lived through grief, family rupture, caregiving, addiction, burnout, divorce, betrayal, reinvention, and the quiet catastrophes that change a life. This is...