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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 goin ....
Host some of the most striking parts are if your book, your talk about behaviors, in hindsight it is easy to see the signs of addiction. In realtime it is not. Tell me about that. What i learned is not only is that true but i came to the idea of addiction with my own implicit biases. I did not think someone struggling with the drug addiction would look like peter, earning the salary he was earning, have two advanced degrees, have a successful partner and at prestigious Silicon Valley law firm. Someone struggling with an addiction was also struggling with conditions like a homeless or Mental Illness that was untreated. They were someone i would see on the side of the road living under a bridge panhandling on the subway and i was very wrong although addiction hits hard in those communities there are plenty of people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder struggling as well. Wha ....
Tell me more about your writing process and what and how you decided to go about writing the book. Sure. I think the writing process started before the book was starting to come together. In 2017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband peter and was called the warrior of the attic, i did a lot of research for that piece, i did about a years worth of research and exploring with my family and my children and seeing 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 in all the was largely to make some meaning out of something gutfeld arbitrary and shameful and guilty and also to try to understand what was going on with peter and understand what was going on in the Legal Profession in terms of Substance Abuse and ....
Honor for me to be speaking with you today. Guest thank you. Host as i read your book, what a hard it must have been for you to write. You uncovered so many deep extremely painful parts of your past and families. Can you tell me more about your writing process and when and how you decide decide to go about wg this book . Guest the writing process was starting to come together in 2017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband and was called the lawyer of the addict. It was about a years worth of research and writing about it and exploring it with my family and children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world of this story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and kelsey, and also to try to understand what was going on with peter and also in the ....
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 a ....