184. When You’re Glad Your Mom Died with Jennette McCurdy
We Can Do Hard Things
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I Was in a Dark Place and I Was Suffering
"I can't prat fall over one more carpet in my life or my soul will be gone out of my body," Julia Louis-Dreyfus says. "There's a certain point when a sitcom catchphrase just feels like hell." She quit acting to focus on her mental health, but it was painful and there were many nights in a fetal position crying about the mistake she'd made. We have to as a culture stop talking about this idea of quitting as bad; we should all just keep going as much as possible even in shitty situations,. So like, no. Can you say more about resilience? When did I become someone who hated resilience?"
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