I recently sat down for an interview for Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper.
We discussed what it means to rebuild after life falls apart — not just to survive it, but to grow through it. I shared how AWAKE came to be, the lessons I learned about codependency and control, and what it looks like to finally feel like myself again after years of unlearning old patterns.
Here’s a snippet from the interview — and you can read the rest here.
Near the beginning of your book, you write: “So this is what it looks like when a life unravels in real time. It is quieter than I expected.” Now, years later, how does it feel hearing your words read to you?
That sentence puts me back in a haunted place. That was ground zero. That was the Day of Discovery. Anybody who understands the term’ Day of Discovery’ needs no explanation. Watching that, this is actually what is happening in my life now. It’s not what I thought was happening. It’s not what I wanted to be happening. This is what’s happening outside of my purview. And it was so weird, because for me, it was the middle of the night, and my kids were upstairs asleep. Everything felt so ordinary. I just remember sitting there thinking, How could everything be so ordinary right now when my life is falling apart in front of my eyes in real time?
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