Tamsen Fadal

How so?

Now you have three daughters.

I have three angels.

Yes.

There was a place that really stopped me in chapter three.

And I know you wrote it, but I'm going to read it anyway for her.

I'm going to.

What I know now that I couldn't see then is that sometimes what breaks us sets us free.

When life blindsides you with changes you didn't ask for, divorce, illness, heartbreak, it can leave you feeling completely untethered.

You start to question everything you thought you knew about who you were, where you were headed.

But really, the life I thought I was losing was making space for the life I was meant to step into.

Is that who we know today?

So when you were going back and writing the book and thinking about what you wanted to tell, were there parts of it that you were like, I don't know if I want to talk about that story or enough people know about that story or there are things in here that you think are going to be surprising to people?

And so that's what I did.

I like that, though.

And I think that that comes with age.

I think it comes with experience, wisdom, all the things that you've talked about so far.

You know, when I think about the person that...

women are always talking about what they're learning during this time, right?

Like I went through my divorce.