Suleika Jaouad
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1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
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And so this time around, while illness, even when you're surrounded by people, can feel isolating because you alone live in your body and know what's happening in there.
Yeah.
never once felt lonely.
I was surrounded by more love than I ever dared dream possible.
And ultimately for me, I feel like love is the crucial, essential ingredient to enduring.
I live by those words.
And Catherine has become a dear friend and a teacher to me.
She lost her 20-something-year-old son to suicide and then shortly thereafter was diagnosed with a very advanced form of cancer.
And long after the book was finished, I actually ultimately went back to California to teach a creative writing course with her for a semester to a group of 16-year-old students.
And I think to me, she's an embodiment of leading with love.
She has every reason in the world to be someone who feels betrayed by the
And yet she has planted these seeds of love in the students that she teaches and her children and now grandchildren and the perfect strangers like myself who she encounters and takes under her wing.
And so I try to live my life in such a way where I attempt to emulate Catherine and attempt to focus on the love and to cultivate it.
I love that so much and I really live my life by that.
I have a hard time with gratitude journals or gratitude lists just because, especially as a cancer patient, you're kind of bombarded with messages of gratitude.
Where I have been able to anchor myself is in a practice of seeking out small joys and small loves because you could always find something to love, the smallest little thing.
You know, I mentioned I like to play Scrabble.
When I was in the bone marrow transplant last year for about five weeks, I befriended one of my nurses and she would come and play Scrabble with me during her lunch breaks.
And we would get fiercely competitive and we would cuss each other out.
And it was just such a delight and such a joy and also such an act of love for her to choose to spend her precious, you know, 15 minutes or whatever it was with me when that was her job.
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