Each week, host Dr. Lisa Belisle sits down with the people who shape the state: entrepreneurs and educators, physicians and artists, community builders and keepers of place. She brings a clinician's ear and two decades in radio and writing to every conversation.
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You can't take it with you. I'm trying not to be attached. I have the images of them and I give a lot to my children. So when I go to their homes, I see them and that works for me.
The technical diagnosis is schizophrenia, but I take it as Grant's disorder. It's a very intuitive process that mirrors almost every single part of my external life. But as I grew more able to explain it to people and talk about it and not keep it all to myself is a very freeing feeling.
Maine people, they're good people, very good people. I had so many good friend, very supportive.
Meet Your Host
MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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Radio Maine is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery, Maine's premier destination for contemporary fine art. Visit the gallery at 154 Middle Street in Portland, or explore the work of gallery artists online.
From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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