Suleika Jaouad
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Suleika Jaouad is an American writer, advocate, and speaker. She is best known for her Emmy Award-winning New York Times column 'Life, Interrupted' and her bestselling memoir. She has also appeared as a guest on prominent platforms, including 'The Tim Ferriss Show'.
What Suleika Jaouad has said on podcasts
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Being cured of cancer can begin, rather than complete, a different healing process.
“what I'd expected to be the kind of final act of this illness experience which was being cured, was actually the beginning of a very different kind of healing.”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 27:17
Cancer survivors cannot simply move on by compartmentalizing their illness experience.
“moving on is a myth.”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 28:27
Healing requires integrating illness-related physical and psychological imprints into present life.
“I was going to have to learn to move forward with this experience with these imprints on my body and my mind, and to learn how to integrate them in my present.”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 28:51
The weeks and months after acute illness or bereavement are often the hardest period.
“it's the quieter weeks and months after that are the hardest”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 31:40
PTSD can apply to people emerging from prolonged life-threatening illness.
“it also applied to emerging from a long period of life threatening illness”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 33:17
Recovery after cancer requires allowing oneself sufficient time to heal.
“I understood I needed time to heal, which wasn't something that I'd allowed myself.”
Open the episode · #879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreListen at 34:20
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