Keywords: psychological vulnerability, isolation, competition culture, teenagers, drug use, recovery
The podcast The Three Lives of the Lioness is a podcast about Sarah. The podcast is divided into three episodes—each episode represents a significant period in Sarah’s life. We recommend that you listen to all three episodes to get the most out of the story.
The podcast is based on a life story interview conducted as three separate interviews over a period of one month in 2022. In its entirety, Sarah’s story is an example of how childhood experiences and personality traits—sometimes combined with happenstance, such as moving, or meeting a friend who has the same peculiar fascinations as yourself—might guide you to an unexpected and unwanted situation in your adult life.
The podcast can be used as case material to better understand the ways in which psychological vulnerability in a person’s formative years can affect the trajectory of vulnerability in young adult life, including the ways in which recovery from social problems such as substance abuse, loneliness, isolation, street life etc. might look.
