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How the Written Word Helps Us Connect (Especially In Our Hardest Moments) | with Allison Sweet Grant

How the Written Word Helps Us Connect (Especially In Our Hardest Moments) | with Allison Sweet Grant

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We seldom write for ourselves because we instead want our stories to touch others. Yet we’re often terrified to put our work (and ourselves!) out into the world. How can we walk the line between wanting to make things that matter while also making sure other people know we made these things for them?I discuss this (and so much more), with Allison Sweet Grant, a former psychiatric nurse practitioner turned author whose is the author of the novel I Am the Cage and the new memoir Lump: A Memoir in Ineloquent Reflections, which candidly explores her experience with breast cancer. In this conversation, we talked about the power of the written word to help create emotional connection, why she chose to write about what cancer actually feels like (rather than her “journey”), and how carefully chosen words can help someone feel less alone.If you're going through something hard, or trying to support someone who is, this conversation offers a different way to connect through uncertainty, pain, and shared experience.Key TakeawaysPut your hardest experiences into words instead of keeping them inside. Writing can help you process what happened, get it out of you, and onto something else.Write about what something feels like, not just what someone needs to do. Practical information can tell you what comes next, but emotional truth can help someone feel less alone.Stop apologizing for pain you didn't choose. Fear of being a burden can cause you to swallow your struggles and limit the possibility for connection.Episode HighlightsWhat a memoir looks like when it mirrors the most difficult period of your lifeHow the same chemo room can feel like hell to one patient and like a heaven that is saving someone's lifeWhy a book for people too sick to finish a chapter comes in bite-sized piecesWhy the language of the "cancer journey" never fit, and how they can place an identity on someoneOn Riches: a scene about pancakes that becomes a lesson in noticing the small details you want to rememberFive Letters: the poem about packing a chemo bag and leaving letters on the tableWhy putting real human words and real human experiences on the page matters moreI'm sorry, I'm okay: why we apologize for being an inconvenience and a burdenHow the involuntary combination of colors with letters and numbers has influenced her choicesJust My Luck: a rant against everything people say caused cancerRecommended Next EpisodeFrom Setback to Comeback: Finding Strength in the Hardest Moments | with Bevin FarrandHow to Keep Moving Forwards After You've Lost Everything | with Christina RasmussenUseful ResourcesOn Vulnerability and the Courageous Act of Creating From a Place of Truth | with Allison Sweet GrantGlennon DoyleZingerman'sGuest BioAllison Sweet Grant is an author who has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic. Previously, she was a psychiatric nurse practitioner; she holds dual master's degrees from the University of Michigan. An introvert, synesthete, and avid poet, Allison can usually be found at home with a cup of hot tea in hand, reading or rewatching a film she has seen sixteen times. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and their three children (and two cats, Pom-Pom and Jasper).Allison's WebsiteAllison's Books: I Am the Cage | Lump: A Memoir in Ineloquent ReflectionsAllison's Instagram | FacebookShow CreditsEdited by: Curtis FritschPublished by: Vim PangantihonMusic by: Thomas Cepeda
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