Practical ways to upgrade your narrative. Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and a new memoir, The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ...
Practical ways to upgrade your narrative.
Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and a new memoir, The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Best American Essays and others. She is a professor at the University of Iowa.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to "audit" your personal narrative with simple questions
- Melissa's five-step method for rewriting unhelpful stories
- Why community, and vulnerability are required for real change; in other words, why it's harder to do this work alone
- Melissa's own experiences running this playbook with regard to her relationships and her addictions.
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