It was a pleasure and an honor for me to be speaking with you today. Thanank you. What kept going through my mind as i read your new book is with a hard look at last have been for you to write. You uncovered so many deep and extremely painful parts of your past and your family. Can you tell me more about your writing process and how you decided to go about writing this book . Guest it was starting to come together in 2017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband and it was called the lawyer the addict so i did a lot of research for that piece and research and thinking about it and exploring it with my family and my children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely t to makig meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and guiltynd also to try to understand what was going on for peter and in the Legal Profession in terms of S
In 2017 i wrote a story for the new york city about what happened to my exhusband peter and it was called the lawyer, the addict, and so i did a lot of research for that piece. I did a years worth of research in thinking about it and exploring it with my family and my children and if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us and all of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and felt guilty about and also to try to understand what was going on for peter and understand what was going on in the Legal Profession in terms Substance Abuse and depression and anxiety. After that came out, it surprisingly had a viral life and had millions of shares and i got a lot of feedback from readers like Young Lawyers who say i am worried who will wind up like your exhusband, depression, anxiety, also using lots of substances. I also at that point started thinking
Work it must have been you uncovered extremely painful parts of your past so tell me more about your writing process when and how you decided to go about writing the book. This started even before the book. 2017 i wrote a story that was call beware of the addict so a lot of the research for that piece and exploring it with my family and children to see if it was okay with them and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. To make meaning out of something that was arbitrary and shameful but also to understand what was going on in the legal professio profession. After that came out, it surprisingly had a viral life and i got a lot of feedback from readers especially Young Lawyers who said now im worried i will end up with my exhusband who was facing depression and anxiety. So then at that point i had started to think about a memoir so i feel my process started before and then i think another eight or nine months talk about high Addiction Centers and people that i met on th
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