Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Woman's Hour
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Is Therapy a Replacement for Writing?
"I think actually, every one who writes things and that are autobiographical, we all think that we're going to destroy people," says Arifa. "That's kind of a lie that i tell myself, because i don't want to deal with the hard things." In fact, the thing to do is just to go all in, write it, go all the way to the bottom, and then make a decision about the piece of writing", she adds.
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