Writing to Find Ourselves and Each Other

She helped with my first book and then we lost touch. She thought we were no longer friends since when she did see me, I seemed distant and disengaged. Years later, she read a draft of my new manuscript and realized what happened.

Such began a journey of writing that revealed both secrets and truths and birthed a book called Brain Dance.

So often we can make assumptions about what people are feeling or thinking but our assumptions may be wrong. This is especially true when that person has gone through a life-altering experience like brain trauma, an invisible injury.

This is an episode about friendship, invisible injury, assumptions, art, creating, co-creating, and meeting life on life’s terms. This conversation is the first in a two-part interview for the Genius Podcast series. This one focuses on:

• What does it take to be truly helpful to another’s creative process?
• How do we help another dig into her own story and find the courage, structure, and words to tell it?
• Who gets to do this work of being a book editor or even midwife? And, who decides?
• What does it mean to help another writer when your own life is consumed by the unthinkable?
• How do we accept the gift of a brilliant friend’s expertise…