Emma Hardy

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1,077 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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The Hook Up · What It’s Like To Have PMDD w/ Emma Hardy · 6 May 2026 podcast

But yeah, so no, it's like, that is what I'm doing.

It's not perfect.

I wish I could have a better, happier story.

Yeah, there's just like, there's not funding.

There's not a good treatment plan.

So I guess I'd make it work, but it's not perfect by any means.

I never wanted to write this book necessarily.

I definitely wrote all the way through the whole experience because I do my morning pages, I write stream of consciousness.

So I had like records of that whole entire time.

It was more all the ideas surrounding

that interested me so like the idea of when do we ignore women's pain when does a woman's pain become a pathology or is it our society that's kind of a pathology of its own these ideas really interested me

And then as I was researching it more, I found that it was really hard for me to actually find the experience in all the writing that I was reading.

I could find medical texts, I could find institutional texts, I could find police reports, psychiatric reports, I could find all of that.

But I couldn't find the women on the page.

I couldn't find their stories.

And I realized that if I wanted to write something that truthfully explored those themes, then I needed to be honestly and vulnerably on the page.

And then for me, the book became an exciting project when I read this book on structure called Meander Spiral Explode.

And one of the chapters talks about spirals as a narrative structure, as like an obsessive way of turning an idea over and over and looking at it from different angles.

And I was just so in love with that idea that I was like, oh, I can turn this painful experience into this like obsessive vortex.

like indulge that repetition that both mirrors like what it feels like to write from like a woman's cycle as opposed to the traditional narrative arc which more accurately reflects a male orgasm like one and done I can like do something more cyclical and have fun with it and focus on a book that's about the experience as opposed to the institution so that got me excited about the book

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