Deepika Chopra

You have to do it, but no, the first couple months of it, I actually remember calling my agent, talking to the editor, being like, I don't know if I can do this.

I feel like I don't have any shred of optimism within me.

I don't know how I could do this.

And I felt really paralyzed for a couple months and honestly, some level of paralysis throughout the entire experience, but in some other more

A different type of irony, I think actually coming back to it and having deadlines and writing this book and having to actually live the tools and the messaging and write the language, think about the thoughts and all of that in real time.

It sounds cliche, but writing the book, I think is the only thing and the only reason that I got through this and that I kept showing up every single day.

despite the circumstances being awful.

And to me, the full circle of that is, I was just talking about this with somebody else a couple of days ago with a friend of mine, and he said everything about why I believe in this book from a scientist's point of view and from research, but I truly believe and understand it from a personal point of view, because I have lived the tools and the pages of this book, this is the part that's important, in really imperfect conditions.

And that is really important to me because I think the tools that we give people need to work in all kinds of conditions.

It's not just when things feel good.

And this book is not about positivity and platitudes.

It's science, it's storytelling, it's memoir, and it's client stories.

It's a whole lot of everything to really meet you where you are, especially when you are going through something tough and none of us are immune to struggle.

Well, we tried everything.

He had treatment at the hospital once a week for a year and a half, and that was really tough.

It was Tuesdays for us, and Tuesdays just were dreadful.

But every day we had to give him medication and

They were a form of, they were steroids and really high dosage.

And when you're first given that task, it just seemed, okay, we've done medicine before we've done liquid.

Motrin or Tylenol, but he was only two and a half.