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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:17

RECLAIMING YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE : In Conversation with Adrienne Love

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It is May 17 at 11:00, and I am sitting writing for my car to be serviced, so it's a perfect moment for me to sit and be quiet and sort of do all this all cast that I've been meaning to catch up on. And this is my first one of the day. So I'm really happy to be here with you, Adrian. And here's what Adrian said this morning an hour ago. This is why I write. This is why I'm a story

Writer at ICM Partners, Adrienne is all about amplifying the voices of human beings especially for mental health

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:52

https://app.swell.life/swellcast/dM3f @AdrienneLove over to you! 🌱

And I recognize that moment when you say I am and then you put writer after it. Can you take us to where that was and what that felt like? And is it a co constant becoming? Do you pronounce that every day, or is it something that once you did it now you're in the car and you're driving
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Adrienne Love
@AdrienneLove · 3:09

Art chose me because I couldn’t look away

I suppose you could call it that it's been a struggle, and I guess the best way to capture it would really be to insert us all into a scene where I was sitting with a writing mentor who I worked with for years. And he could tell that I was struggling with the path of storytelling and being an artist. And he said, Listen, if you can do anything else and be happy, do that
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:02

Story + Mental health / journey

It feels so organic to hear your story insofar as your passion to take a lived experience and make it accessible to more people. So the calling is twofold. One is as an as an activist old, you want to capture stories and put them in the world. But two for your own journey as an expressive person, there's just an unmitigating call for you to just be in that journey almost as an activist for your own, as an evangelist for your own souls purpose
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Adrienne Love
@AdrienneLove · 4:34

What happens when you can’t receive help? Story saved me.

And so I guess, to answer your question, the connection between story and mental health for me was finding a language first and foremost for myself to both understand what had happened in my life, but also to sit with it and then to communicate outward in a way that felt not empowered but safe and peaceful and proud in the world so that I could walk through the world in a way that didn't feel shameful and small and sad but quite the opposite
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:02

Being a writer in 2021 ... the burden / the badge / the opportunity

So that's sort of the theme I want to push out there is being a writer now, what does it feel like? What does it mean? What are the burdens? What are the inspirations? What invigorates you on a daily basis and some heroes that maybe stick out for you, who represent people that are rising to this occasion right now, whether they're journalists or novelists or TV writers or bloggers, it's always great to get ideas about what's sparking you
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Adrienne Love
@AdrienneLove · 2:11

Story lives everywhere...

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that story doesn't have to live in books. It doesn't have to live in audiobooks, it doesn't have to live in literary magazines. It doesn't have to live even in movies or in TV. Story. I love pushing the boundaries of story. Story has a place in tech, it has a place in every industry, in every corner of the world
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