How the Written Word Helps Us Connect (Especially In Our Hardest Moments) | with Allison Sweet Grant

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We seldom write for ourselves because we instead want our stories to touch others. Yet we’re often terrified to put our work (and ourselves!) out into the world. How can we walk the line between wanting to make things that matter while also making sure other people know we made these things for them? I discuss this (and so much more), with Allison Sweet Grant , a former psychiatric nurse practitioner turned author whose is the author of the novel I Am the Cage and the new memoir Lump: A Memoir in Ineloquent Reflections , which candidly explores her experience with breast cancer. In this conversation, we talked about the power of the written word to help create emotional connection, why she…