Alone: A Love Story

CBC Podcasts

Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.

  • 40 minutes 33 seconds
    Alone: A Love Story Introduces | Creation Myth

    Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time.


    In the latest season of Personally: Creation Myth, Helena does not want kids. Her husband believes she’ll change her mind—she has so much love to give, she would be a perfect mother. That will never happen, she tells him. Again. And again. Until one day, he leaves.


    In the silence, doubt starts rushing in. So she asks her close friends, her mother, her sister, even a perfect stranger—did she make the right decision? What is the purpose of life? Center your pleasure, says one friend. Go for adventure, says another, and isn’t parenthood the biggest adventure of all? Be true to yourself, says a father who regrets his decision. But the voice she needs to hear is her own. More episodes of Creation Myth are available wherever you get your podcasts and here: https://link.mgln.ai/CMxAALS

    10 February 2026, 6:30 pm
  • 4 minutes 51 seconds
    Bonus: Forza, coraggio and an update

    It's okay to grieve when things are beyond our control. Michelle Parise shares words of wisdom for these uncertain times. Plus, some news! "Alone: A Love Story" is now a book.

    26 April 2020, 11:41 pm
  • 35 minutes 11 seconds
    Chapter 28: Love after Love
    Spiderman, a sexy cowboy, and making my way out of the wild, wild wood.
    11 February 2019, 5:09 am
  • 27 minutes 7 seconds
    Chapter 27: Blow Away
    Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.
    10 February 2019, 5:08 am
  • 22 minutes 13 seconds
    Chapter 26: Caution
    Carpenter ants, cotton candy and a passionate declaration from The Man With the White Shirt.
    9 February 2019, 5:07 am
  • 25 minutes 59 seconds
    Chapter 25: Lost
    Cold legs, wanderlust and living by the tides.
    8 February 2019, 5:06 am
  • 30 minutes 20 seconds
    Chapter 24: Falling
    The edge of despair, The Husband becomes a dandy, and the trouble with truth and trust.
    7 February 2019, 5:05 am
  • 25 minutes 56 seconds
    Chapter 23: In Dreams
    PDA in NYC, running in circles and sex as ceasefire.
    6 February 2019, 5:04 am
  • 27 minutes 28 seconds
    Chapter 22: Variations
    Marking time, my territory and my biological clock.
    5 February 2019, 5:03 am
  • 27 minutes 27 seconds
    Chapter 21: Courage
    The first episode of the third season. A frightening encounter, a beautiful road trip and a new chapter in my life.
    4 February 2019, 5:02 am
  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    Bonus: I Should Sleep But I Don't Sleep
    A drifter in her own life: Michelle Parise shares a poignant scene that was cut from Season 3.
    18 January 2019, 5:10 am
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