When I read your objects and one of them was rejection letters there's something that happens in Ruth's story which kind of chimed with me when I read about the box of rejection letters. There's a bit where Ruth says and Ruth is someone who is experiencing disordered eating got a lot going on works in the supermarket she's really having some quite big struggles isn't she? "I think actually if I've worked really hard and I feel like I've gone through rejection to get to that place for the piece of work but I can take the compliment garage back to it whooping the air yeah"
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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