Suleika Jaouad
speaker
1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
Suleika Jaouad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And at the time, I thought, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do this thing that I love.
And yet we adapt constantly.
I started using a voice transcription app on my phone.
I started painting in the place of writing, which is not something I ever thought I was going to do.
And painting has become this hugely important part of my life and now career in a very, very bizarre, unexpected way.
And so that's the thing that I return to.
It's that, you know, when we lose...
some part of ourselves that feels integral to who we are.
If we can get quiet enough and observant enough to notice what other things start to appear on the peripheries of that absence, we learn that
While you can't go back to the way your life was before, there are new ways of living, new ways of surviving, new ways of interacting with the world around you.
And so that's what I've been doing this year is learning to adapt.
And on some days, it feels incredibly challenging.
And on other days, it feels thrilling.
I feel almost bulletproof because the ceiling has caved in and I'm okay.
The other day I was walking my dog and it was a beautiful sunny day and I'm no longer using my walker.
And I just had, you know, one of these great New York moments.
Someone was playing something on a boom box.
And I had this moment where I turned to my dog and I said out loud, I said, I'm outside and I'm living.
And it was such a small, thrilling, ordinary moment.
And it meant everything.
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