When Amy Douglas was a teenager, her parents sent her to a boarding
school for troubled kids deep in the Arizona desert. There she fell
deep into a depression and struggled with an eating disorder. Then a
cassette copy of The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002IQML6/studi360-20/] helped
turn her life around.
“That album was full of energy and really helped me to become alive
again,” she remembers. The music was also her constant companion
when she’d go running. “It was my solace and it was my motivator
to reconnect with my body that I had been completely disconnected from
and become friends with it again. I wore that tape out.”
(Originally aired August 25, 2006)
