Amy Griffin
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222 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Amy Griffin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, one, just from the writing, vulnerability. Just purely understanding that vulnerability actually equates to me as powerful now. I sense so much power in vulnerability and I appreciate that because it makes me so much more reachable with everyone in my life and both in my business and the founders that I get to work with and my children and my husband.
And the other thing from the book piece of it, I have to say that another author friend said to me, Amy, the publishing of a book is one thing and your ego can get involved and you can care about the book coming out. But you have to remember that book is all about the people that you will meet along the way. Now, never could I have imagined. There I was. Along the way.
Oprah, but as I sat, the woman who was my practitioner when I had my MDMA session, she would say often to me, Amy, the end is glorious. There is something glorious waiting on the other side of this process you're going through. This was the glorious ending. that she would have never anticipated that I was sitting here with you, able to tell this story and share it with so many other people.
Coming from the words that I put on the page just for myself, and then in realizing the deeper connection that I could have in telling one person and then another person.
Well, first, I'm focused on saying I'm sorry. And thank you for being here in the front row to look me in the eye and share and tell. And I would say that I think one of the most important things is, which is in all the running, you know, in the book, I talk about this lawyer that I had to work with, an Amarillo named Duke, who kept saying, you need to slow down, you need to slow down.
And it infuriated me, even though he was responding to the criminal investigation. He was saying I needed to slow down. And as mad as I was at that process, I think the idea that it is a process and that for, you know, you see me in this dress today and you see my husband and we're sitting here, we have prepared to come on the Oprah show, but...
There are many, many moments where it was bleak and dark and it's okay. And in a way, I would never say I miss those moments, but I'm grateful that I had them because it makes me understand myself better. And I'm so connected to myself and those memories of those days where it wasn't going so great. So it's slow, just take it slow.
And that's what I would say that to take it slow and to write it down.
Wow, that's a gift of a question. Because two nights ago, I went into our youngest bedroom and I said, Julian, You know, I just thought about something and I thought about the idea that the word that I went into his room thinking about was consent. And I said, you know, I realized that you were seven when I started writing this book. And like any parent, a few years ago, I did tell him my story.
And I did it. I had consulted every parenting manual. And I sat, you know, they say do it where you're sitting at a deli counter or where you're driving or where you're doing something with them. And in my case, I told him the story when I was doing a puzzle with him. And he kind of shook his head. Okay, got it. Do you want to ask any more questions? No. And then I left it.
And two nights ago when I was back in his bedroom, I went and I said, you know, I have to tell you something. I'm about to go on the Oprah show. And I just want to make sure that you know that has anyone asked you about my book? Because it's coming out. People are talking about it. And he said, yeah, a few of my friends have. And I said, well, what do you tell them?
He said, I tell them it's about memories and your life. And I looked at him and I said, but guess what? You can tell them whatever you want. You can tell them all of it. You can tell them everything I told you. You can tell them how you feel about it. And you can tell them that maybe this story might help them. And he said, okay, mom.
And then he said, and now I'm ready to read it because he's old enough to read the story.
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Well, thank you. And thank you for the work you're doing to also now pay it forward after your experience. You know, that's what also in writing this book and realizing that I have so many resources and I tapped into all of them. I read every possible book. I tried every possible therapy. I was going to work my way out of this in many ways.
And I think what came down to the writing of this book and the whole meaning of this book is that it's in the tell.
And so resources or not, I just hope that every person who's been through something like this or has any kind of broken part of them can find one person in their life and to know where that person is in their life, but to be able to go to them and trust them with their story and have them hold it and repeat it back and have the conversations back and forth
That's the start and that's what has to happen. And I think when I envision this book, I envision that people take the book and they pass it openly to a friend at a cafe, at a Starbucks. They don't have to hide it anymore. They pass the book and they say, just read this. And then I hope that this book will sit on nightstands and then people will read it and refer back to it.
My dream is that in 10 years, someone will write me and say, hey, I just have to tell you something. This book helped me so much. It changed my life. And that they pulled one passage out of it. And then that will be reason enough for me to have written the book.
I feel so free in this moment. I felt free since the minute I said the words to John when he came down after my session. It was the most liberating. liberating moment of my life, Oprah, it was other than the days that you go into a hospital room and you have a baby and you come out with three people. Yeah. Or the day that I jumped up and down at the altar for my volleyball days.
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