Delicate Machinery: the humanity beneath it all

Episodes

1. 6

   0.5 inches better

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   Oct 29, 2026

   25 min
2. 5

   Picture Your Friends and Family Bleeding

   I said what I said. You’ll have to listen to this end of this episode to see why. ;-) Get full access to Delicate Machinery: the humanity beneath it all at dawnbulchandani.substack.com/subscribe

   Oct 23, 2026

   19 min
3. 4

   What If I Spiral?

   Geiger, E. J., Pruessner, L., Barnow, S., & Joormann, J. (2024). What empathizers do: Empathy and the selection of everyday interpersonal emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 76–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.056 Get full access to Delicate Machinery: the...

   Sep 24, 2026

   25 min
4. 3

   Redefining Validation

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   Sep 17, 2026

   18 min
5. 2

   The Ache of Invalidation

   Invalidation stings. It erodes. It separates. Particularly when it comes from people we are knit together with in life: family, close friends, co-workers we collaborate with regularly, and so on. Many of us journey through life with the ache of invalidation, a yearning and a pain beneath the...

   Sep 10, 2026

   28 min
6. 1

   Delicate Machinery

   So, you realized you're human, and you're trying to figure out what that means — how to be that fully, how to feel it in your body and not just your head. Yeah, me too. That's what this whole show is on a quest toward. This question of “What does it mean to be human?” has chased me my whole life....

   Sep 3, 2026

   14 min