Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing The Challenges of Being Vulnerable On the Page with Megan Williams
What would you do if an experience you’d long dreamed of was not only not what it’s cracked up to be, but at times miserable? Would you own up to the challenges or pretend it’s as great as you imagined Join me and Megan Williams, author of One Bad Mother as we explore the challenges of being vulnerable on the page, the realities of modern motherhood no one wants to talk about, and a key book-launch lesson every author needs to know.
Resources Mentioned During This Episode:
- Mom Rage by Minna Dubin
- Ordinary Insanity by Sarah Menkendrick
Episode Highlights
- 2:00 The Challenge of Being Vulnerable on the Page
- 6:00 Protecting Yourself from Friendly Fire
- 8:30 Structuring Around a Theme
- 15:33 The Challenges of Modern Motherhood
- 23:39 Book Launch Tips
- 26:00 Megan’s Writing Tip
Megan’s Bio: Megan Williams is the author of One Bad Mother: A Woman’s Search for Meaning in Motherhood and the Police Academy. After graduating from Haverford College, Megan received her Ph.D. in English from Temple University and taught at Lafayette College and Santa Clara University. She has moved across the country—never landing in the middle—three times in twenty years. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, who runs Blue Dog Bakery and keeps their teenage twins, rescued cat, horse, and mastiffs full of treats.
Connect with Megan:
- Website: meganwilliamsauthor.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1347114175&mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ottoisking
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-williams-6585844a/
- TikTok: @Onebadmother
- One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy a book by Megan Williams (bookshop.org)
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