When I first graduated from drama school we used to send out 50 cv's a week and get all these rejection letters nothing was on email then. It spurred me on to see that wall of rejection letters every day in a way that if I had won anything any awards or putting them up wouldn't have done right something about rejection letters feels like it releases you into more of an open state. There's also something about that when we're rejected we have to reach out we have to cry we have to ask for support talk to people about how that rejection feels, she says.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie talks to author and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung. Maxine joins us to discuss her latest book, What Women Want, an intimate examination of female desire.
The two also discuss the importance of making time for yourself, the impulse to keep busy for fear we may break down, why many of our coping mechanisms are developed in childhood, and why eye contact is essential when sharing intimate information.
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