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How this artist found life — and art — after alcohol

How do you fill your time after deciding to get sober? For journalist and cartoonist Edith Zimmerman, the answer was rediscovering activities she enjoyed as a kid. She chats with Chris Duffy, host of the “How to Be a Better Human” podcast, about how she quit drinking, learned to replace bad habits with healthier ones…

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November 4, 2025

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@JeremyLMarquez

November 4, 2025 at 6:01 pm

🎉 4 years alcohol free ty for this TED

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- @urbanwolfep7195
  
  November 5, 2025 at 9:29 am
  
  Congratulations!
  
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@SonjaMorrison-i7j

November 4, 2025 at 6:01 pm

She is not a particularly good artist, as far as I can tell.

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- @AlphasAlibi
  
  November 4, 2025 at 6:08 pm
  
  Doubt you can do anything close, let alone better, goofy
  
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- @SunShap
  
  November 4, 2025 at 6:21 pm
  
  Art is subjective, and differences in style aren’t what make art good or bad. If you didn’t like the art style, you could’ve just clicked off instead of going out of your way to make someone else’s day worse.
  Have a nice day!
  
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- @MadAboutBrows
  
  November 4, 2025 at 8:05 pm
  
  And you’re not a particularly good person from what I can tell ❌
  
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- @MadisonLa369
  
  November 4, 2025 at 8:16 pm
  
  Yeah, it’s rudimentary and juvenile but it shares deeply human experiences and that’s what is at the core of art. People may find it much more approachable to engage with some negative or neutral truths in a fun and unserious way. It’s actually quite effective in that sense.
  
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- @bodyofhope
  
  November 5, 2025 at 4:35 am
  
  I think it’s more of a way to share her writing. It’s not meant to be classical art.
  
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@Karenhoopsspithearthrag1975

November 4, 2025 at 6:07 pm

The encouragement I find here always helps me face challenges with renewed strength and optimism 🍩☕

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@RefurbishedPrototype

November 4, 2025 at 6:37 pm

Quit drinking 10 years ago. Started smoking scorpions and I’ve never looked back.

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- @jeanweltmann6658
  
  November 5, 2025 at 10:34 am
  
  started what, sorry?
  
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- @TheDarkPacific
  
  November 5, 2025 at 11:38 am
  
  What kind of scorpions? Asking for a friend
  
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@urbanwolfep7195

November 5, 2025 at 9:29 am

Cool woman

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@morganjacoby5873

November 5, 2025 at 10:01 am

Someone said that we become a stereotype of ourselves. We do what we do because we always have.

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The TED Idea Search wraps up in Amman, Jordan, in a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater and in front of a crowd of 4,000. What unfolds inside those stone walls is something the series hasn’t quite seen before: speakers shaped by the weight of living in a region the world tends to define for itself. From a mountaineer who turned grief into motivation to a therapist rewriting the Arab world’s language around mental health, the final city makes the strongest case yet that the best ideas can come from anywhere.

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