Longing Is Eerie When You're Young

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Longing is embarrassing when you're young. You don't want to have everything you need. My mam said that to me all these, all those years ago. And a, ye, i think i'm very much a seeker. I would seek with them the wayst to see more clearly their conundrum, or their sorrow, or their suffering, or their question. That's my work. From a very early age, what i felt called to do was to be a writer. It was because as a reader, i could feel that sort of big, transcendent thing we look for when we read and write. So now though, how do you feel about the word seeker,

1. Why Cheryl chose Strayed as her last name – the only one not given to her by a man.

2. How she ruined her life when her mom died, and how we can bear the unbearable.

3. Cheryl’s greatest lesson from her 3-month hike of the PCT, and her mom’s advice she uses everyday.

4. How to make peace with our ITS – “inner terrible someone” – who lives in each of us.

5. Why and how Cheryl is now exploring: “Can I be happy if my kids aren’t?”

About Cheryl:

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, as well as the bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch.

Wild was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a TV show for Hulu and will star Kathryn Hahn.

In addition to writing her widely acclaimed essays, stories and scripts, Strayed has hosted two hit podcasts for the New York Times — Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Brian Lindstrom and their two teenagers.

TW: @CherylStrayed

IG: @cherylstrayed

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