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Writing What Hurts: Why Sharing Your Deepest Struggles Can Set You Free
Dr. Tanmeet Sethi reveals how vulnerability can heal you — and your readers.
Have you ever hesitated to share your story? Have you ever questioned whether other people want to hear it? Do you think it’s scary to share your mess publicly?
If that’s a YES, I feel you! Every detail of it, matters!
You’re the expert of your own life and the only one who can share YOUR story with the world!
Because when her friend first suggested she give a TEDx talk Tanmeet Sethi, MD, who I interviewed recently for my YouTube channel, hesitated, too. “Who wants to hear about this?” she asked.
“I can’t go on stage and talk about this painful thing.”
That moment of doubt, of questioning whether her story was worth telling, is something every (newish) writer can relate to. But what happened next is proof of the power of making yourself vulnerable and that’s why it’s so important to for me to share Tanmeets’s story with you today.
I had the privilege of sitting down with board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician and author of Joy is my Justice, Tanmeet Sethi, for an incredible conversation about turning pain into power — and how she…
