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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

So you have this one moment where you're on tour, you're in a hotel room, you're supposed to go out and speak to all of these people about your book and you get extremely anxious and you can't go out and you can't go out into the world and you are stuck in this hotel room and you're too anxious to go explore, which for me is such a metaphor of anxiety. It's like- what always literally happens.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

So you have this one moment where you're on tour, you're in a hotel room, you're supposed to go out and speak to all of these people about your book and you get extremely anxious and you can't go out and you can't go out into the world and you are stuck in this hotel room and you're too anxious to go explore, which for me is such a metaphor of anxiety. It's like- what always literally happens.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

So you have this one moment where you're on tour, you're in a hotel room, you're supposed to go out and speak to all of these people about your book and you get extremely anxious and you can't go out and you can't go out into the world and you are stuck in this hotel room and you're too anxious to go explore, which for me is such a metaphor of anxiety. It's like- what always literally happens.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

And then you're like, oh, I'm missing my life. And all of those people are out there out the window doing the things humans are supposed to do, but I can't experience life because of this anxiety and I'm wasting my life. And then can you tell everybody what happens next when you're looking out the window?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

And then you're like, oh, I'm missing my life. And all of those people are out there out the window doing the things humans are supposed to do, but I can't experience life because of this anxiety and I'm wasting my life. And then can you tell everybody what happens next when you're looking out the window?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

And then you're like, oh, I'm missing my life. And all of those people are out there out the window doing the things humans are supposed to do, but I can't experience life because of this anxiety and I'm wasting my life. And then can you tell everybody what happens next when you're looking out the window?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

You said, I was reminded that there are amazing things I would never see with normal eyes and other paths. I cried again, but this time out of a small thankfulness that my brokenness set me in the place where I am. Beautiful, terrible, unseen by most.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

You said, I was reminded that there are amazing things I would never see with normal eyes and other paths. I cried again, but this time out of a small thankfulness that my brokenness set me in the place where I am. Beautiful, terrible, unseen by most.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

You said, I was reminded that there are amazing things I would never see with normal eyes and other paths. I cried again, but this time out of a small thankfulness that my brokenness set me in the place where I am. Beautiful, terrible, unseen by most.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Wow. That's awesome. As someone who deals with ADD, does it annoy you or not when people are like, I'm so ADD, like on all their memes and graphics, because they like forgot one thing. Is that an annoyance and a hurtful thing for you?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Wow. That's awesome. As someone who deals with ADD, does it annoy you or not when people are like, I'm so ADD, like on all their memes and graphics, because they like forgot one thing. Is that an annoyance and a hurtful thing for you?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Wow. That's awesome. As someone who deals with ADD, does it annoy you or not when people are like, I'm so ADD, like on all their memes and graphics, because they like forgot one thing. Is that an annoyance and a hurtful thing for you?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Jenny, I feel like it's important to talk about suicide and it's scary to talk about it because people are convinced that it's talking about it is contagious. Like if you talk about it, that means other people will think of it or something and maybe they wouldn't have thought of it before. And I think that comes from a good place too, right? Everybody's just trying to avoid it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Jenny, I feel like it's important to talk about suicide and it's scary to talk about it because people are convinced that it's talking about it is contagious. Like if you talk about it, that means other people will think of it or something and maybe they wouldn't have thought of it before. And I think that comes from a good place too, right? Everybody's just trying to avoid it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Jenny, I feel like it's important to talk about suicide and it's scary to talk about it because people are convinced that it's talking about it is contagious. Like if you talk about it, that means other people will think of it or something and maybe they wouldn't have thought of it before. And I think that comes from a good place too, right? Everybody's just trying to avoid it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

But what has always been surprising to me, and I have no idea if this is just because of my mental health issues, is that people seem so shocked. I can't even imagine is usually the refrain, right? Like I can't even imagine. And that is always very, feels like othering to me because I'm always like, really? Like you can't, you can't, you've never thought about that?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

But what has always been surprising to me, and I have no idea if this is just because of my mental health issues, is that people seem so shocked. I can't even imagine is usually the refrain, right? Like I can't even imagine. And that is always very, feels like othering to me because I'm always like, really? Like you can't, you can't, you've never thought about that?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

But what has always been surprising to me, and I have no idea if this is just because of my mental health issues, is that people seem so shocked. I can't even imagine is usually the refrain, right? Like I can't even imagine. And that is always very, feels like othering to me because I'm always like, really? Like you can't, you can't, you've never thought about that?

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Like, so I don't even know exactly what I'm trying to say, but what I think what I'm trying to say is I feel like talking about it, even admitting, yes, I too have had those feelings. I too have considered suicide. I have had beginning thoughts or middle thoughts. I don't think that that propagates suicide. I think that what you just said is so important.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way) (Best Of)

Like, so I don't even know exactly what I'm trying to say, but what I think what I'm trying to say is I feel like talking about it, even admitting, yes, I too have had those feelings. I too have considered suicide. I have had beginning thoughts or middle thoughts. I don't think that that propagates suicide. I think that what you just said is so important.