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 I have all kinds of rituals.
I did another 100-day project when I was recovering from my last bone marrow transplant.
And this one for me was around painting.
I started painting my own kind of Frida-inspired, very surreal, fever dream-esque self-portraits when I was in the hospital.
And I found a kind of...
language in watercolor that I couldn't express myself in any other way.
And Melissa, my friend, one of my cancer comrades who's no longer with us, was an incredible watercolor artist.
And she used to always say, I love watercolor because it's messy and you can't control it like life.
And so that has been my ritual.
I make watercolors every day.
I have no idea if they're any good and they don't really care.
But that's the kind of metaphor that I get to embody on a daily basis that helps orient me, that helps me accept what I can't control, that helps me live in the mess.
Thank you both.
This has been such an honor.
And I kept saying to my doctor, like, I don't know how to deal with this level of uncertainty.
I don't know how to keep living my life when I don't know what's going to happen.
And he said to me the thing people often say, which is that you have to live every day as if it's your last.
And it was exhausting to try to make every family dinner meaningful, to try to squeeze the juice out of every single moment.
It was just unsustainable.
And so I had to shift to a gentler mindset of trying to live every day as if it's my first.
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