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100. Jenny Lawson is Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
About this episode
1. Content warning: Discussion of suicide.
2. Jenny puts words to her experience of ADD – "being a kitten on cocaine" – and her anxiety – seeing "rainbow fire.”
3. How Jenny felt guilty for years about a way her mental illness impacted her mothering – only to later learn it was her child’s favorite memory.
4. The moment she decided to be honest about her struggles – and how sharing our awkwardness can save the world and cure our loneliness.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
About Jenny:
Jenny Lawson is an award-winning humorist known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with mental illness. She's written four NYT bestsellers, including Let's Pretend This Never Happened (a mostly true memoir), Furiously Happy (A funny book about terrible things), You Are Here (An owner's manual for dangerous minds) and Broken (in the best possible way), which recently won the Goodreads Choice award for Best Humor of 2021. One of those books is a coloring book but she insists it still counts. She lives in Texas with her husband and child and would like to be your friend unless you're a real asshole.
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