When i wrote it, i thought it was funny. But when i did a lot of therapy and was actually helped to sit with those feelings for a minute, yet, nothing about that memory is funny to me now. I mean, except for the fact that iave so dissociated from it, which is kind of funny. And then i realized, maybe it's not funny, like, maybe tis is not a funny memory. He aleged, i was dead. I was thunder jackand that was their literal feedback, ike, i'm a little worried for this person. Bhut they don't know this isn't funny. N, that was the first thing
Tara Westover is the author of Educated.
“I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.”
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