{"id":3278772,"date":"2025-04-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3278772"},"modified":"2025-04-02T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:55:13","slug":"interview-with-author-tara-pyfrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-with-author-tara-pyfrom","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Author Tara Pyfrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3278773\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-with-author-tara-pyfrom\/attachment\/interview-with-tara-pyfrom\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-800x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-800x800.jpg 800w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My guest today was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tarapyfrom.com\/\">Tara Pyfrom<\/a><\/strong>, author of memoir<strong> <em>The Ocean in Our Blood<\/em><\/strong>. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family&#8217;s mental health journeys and the effects of climate change in areas of the world like The Bahamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to learn more about Tara&#8217;s story, The Ocean in Our Blood will be released July 2025, but is also currently available for preorder on her <a href=\"https:\/\/tarapyfrom.com\/pre-order\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_867\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('867','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3278772-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today was Tara Pyfrom, author of memoir The Ocean in Our Blood. Tara joined me today to give insight into the category 5 hurricane that hit The Bahamas in 2019, Hurricane Dorian. During our interview Tara discusses her experience with environmental immigration, PTSD, her and her family&#8217;s mental health journeys and the effects<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-with-author-tara-pyfrom\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_869\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('869','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3278772-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2025-03-28%20Interview%20with%20Tara%20Pyfrom.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":3278773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2353,491,13572],"class_list":["post-3278772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-author","tag-interview","tag-the-lunchbox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interview-With-Tara-Pyfrom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278796,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278772\/revisions\/3278796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}