It's writing toward the discomfort." On transforming isolation into creative solitudeĭuring her treatment, Jaouad experienced isolation out of medical necessity before most of the world could comprehend the idea. Survival as a creative act, on the other hand, "is not trying to plaster over the isolation or to rewrite your predicament into something positive for the happy ending or some kind of neat resolution," she says. But I think what inadvertently happens, and what makes these kinds of platitudes and this kind of relentless positivity potentially harmful, is that it can make us feel like we're suffering the wrong way." "These phrases come from a well-intentioned place. Smith On Grief In The Holidays And 'Different Vocabularies For Feeling' There's the person and the life you had before and everything that comes after," Jaouad writes of the moment of her diagnosis in her memoir Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir Of A Life Interrupted. "It was one of those moments that creates an irreparable fracture in your life. All of her big plans were put on indefinite hold. Suleika Jaouad is a journalist, author and the founder of The Isolation Journals community, and she's all too familiar with the "in-between" space.Īt 22, shortly after graduating college, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Many of us feel frozen, caught in a holding pattern - in the liminal space between what was and what will be.
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