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Michelle Williams

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Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

Yeah, we're hitching our wagons together.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

Yeah, we're hitching our wagons together.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I'm thinking of all the friends that I've lived with in what really felt like a commune for a while. There was a period of my life where we had room to share, and my friends came to make our house feel like a home. One of my best friends, Daphne, we slept in the same bed for years, and another friend, Jeremy, lived downstairs, and then their friends would be there.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I'm thinking of all the friends that I've lived with in what really felt like a commune for a while. There was a period of my life where we had room to share, and my friends came to make our house feel like a home. One of my best friends, Daphne, we slept in the same bed for years, and another friend, Jeremy, lived downstairs, and then their friends would be there.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I'm thinking of all the friends that I've lived with in what really felt like a commune for a while. There was a period of my life where we had room to share, and my friends came to make our house feel like a home. One of my best friends, Daphne, we slept in the same bed for years, and another friend, Jeremy, lived downstairs, and then their friends would be there.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was kind of like a real open-door policy to create a sense of community. And those have been the sustaining relationships in my life that have taken me to this place where now I have a growing family and a husband. But it's those friendships that have sort of created a support. And we share this memory of this time together when we all lived under one roof.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was kind of like a real open-door policy to create a sense of community. And those have been the sustaining relationships in my life that have taken me to this place where now I have a growing family and a husband. But it's those friendships that have sort of created a support. And we share this memory of this time together when we all lived under one roof.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was kind of like a real open-door policy to create a sense of community. And those have been the sustaining relationships in my life that have taken me to this place where now I have a growing family and a husband. But it's those friendships that have sort of created a support. And we share this memory of this time together when we all lived under one roof.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So the thing that I'm always looking for, and I think the reason that I go to work, is to expand my sense of freedom. And that the moments between action and cut, that is a very safe space. Because nothing bad can truly happen there. The worst that can happen to me is that I feel embarrassed. But that's not going to destroy me, nor is it going to stop me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So the thing that I'm always looking for, and I think the reason that I go to work, is to expand my sense of freedom. And that the moments between action and cut, that is a very safe space. Because nothing bad can truly happen there. The worst that can happen to me is that I feel embarrassed. But that's not going to destroy me, nor is it going to stop me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So the thing that I'm always looking for, and I think the reason that I go to work, is to expand my sense of freedom. And that the moments between action and cut, that is a very safe space. Because nothing bad can truly happen there. The worst that can happen to me is that I feel embarrassed. But that's not going to destroy me, nor is it going to stop me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I have to continue to tell myself that that is my problem. Time to get free. And that's kind of my mantra. Get free, get free, get free. And so I return again to that idea of it is possible to be both scared and brave at the same time. So I had to tell myself that a lot before those scenes and really hold on to this idea of relaxation, expansion, recovery.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I have to continue to tell myself that that is my problem. Time to get free. And that's kind of my mantra. Get free, get free, get free. And so I return again to that idea of it is possible to be both scared and brave at the same time. So I had to tell myself that a lot before those scenes and really hold on to this idea of relaxation, expansion, recovery.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I have to continue to tell myself that that is my problem. Time to get free. And that's kind of my mantra. Get free, get free, get free. And so I return again to that idea of it is possible to be both scared and brave at the same time. So I had to tell myself that a lot before those scenes and really hold on to this idea of relaxation, expansion, recovery.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think it's an idea that's been dawning for a while and a place that I've come to think I can have real pleasure. And I think some of it is based in the way that I grew up. I had this section of my childhood where I lived in Montana and there was... So much spaciousness and so much liberation and so much freedom and so much trust. What did that look like?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think it's an idea that's been dawning for a while and a place that I've come to think I can have real pleasure. And I think some of it is based in the way that I grew up. I had this section of my childhood where I lived in Montana and there was... So much spaciousness and so much liberation and so much freedom and so much trust. What did that look like?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think it's an idea that's been dawning for a while and a place that I've come to think I can have real pleasure. And I think some of it is based in the way that I grew up. I had this section of my childhood where I lived in Montana and there was... So much spaciousness and so much liberation and so much freedom and so much trust. What did that look like?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was a place where a child could be unattended to and still have the parents feel like the child was safe because the child was in nature. in a field, on a dirt road, in a big backyard. And so it allowed for this kind of exploration.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was a place where a child could be unattended to and still have the parents feel like the child was safe because the child was in nature. in a field, on a dirt road, in a big backyard. And so it allowed for this kind of exploration.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

It was a place where a child could be unattended to and still have the parents feel like the child was safe because the child was in nature. in a field, on a dirt road, in a big backyard. And so it allowed for this kind of exploration.