Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Woman's Hour
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I've Had Therape and I'm a Journalist
This isn't journaling. This isn't my diary, and this isn't therapy. And i set off, not to feel better afterwards. It was a sort of investigation. I thought, let's investigate what my sister's life and death, her depression, us as sisters,. Let's under and but in a formal, you know, in a formal way. The dead have rights. Just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they don't have rights about much i spose about their life. If this, if this was journalling, it would just be the splurge of rubbish for me. That's what i do when i journal. Whereas this has formal shape
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