#34: Living with Chronic and Mental Illness with Esmé Wang

Mary’s Cup of Tea: the Self-Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Self-love, Body-image, Mental Health, Body Image, Relationships, Women's Health, Self Love, Advice For Women, Self Love For Women, Love Yourself, Education, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this interview Mary speaks with the beautiful and talented writer Esmé Wang about what it's like living with chronic and mental illness. Esmé shares her most helpful tools for dealing with depression and anxiety, especially during this difficult time where everything is uncertain. She also gives advice on how we should approach people with disability and how social justice must coexist in our conversations about mental health. In February 2019, Graywolf Press published Esmé's essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, which became a New York Times bestseller and the Los Angeles Review of Books stated that “Esmé Weijun Wang is poised to become a major writer, and this is her origin story.” Her debut novel, The Border of Paradise, has received accolades and kind words from places such as LitHub, NPR Books, and the Chicago Review of Books. She was selected by Granta for their once-a-decade Best of Young American Novelists list of 21 authors under 40, and she received the prestigious Whiting Award in 2018. Things Mentioned: Andrew Scott's performance in Sea Wall: https://www.seawallandrewscott.com Fiona Apple's Fetch The Bolt Cutters Album: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9tY0BWXOZFthbMAh1WrMDEho_wKVSM_1 The Cut article: https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/esme-weijun-wang-on-her-book-the-collected-schizophrenias.html Connect with Esmé online: https://esmewang.com https://www.instagram.com/esmewwang/ Tag us in your Instagram stories to let us know how you liked this episode: @maryscupofteaa and @esmewwang

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tea Time with Mary.
0:08.8	I'm your host, Mary Jolkowski.
0:11.1	I'm a former bikini fitness model turned self-love advocate.
0:15.1	And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.
0:19.7	Hey everyone, quick thing before we jump into the podcast episode. that'll inspire you to love yourself.
0:26.8	Hey everyone, quick thing before we jump into the podcast episode, I decided that instead of having sponsors on the podcast and filling it up with ads, I would just tell you about all the things
0:32.1	that I have going on, including the free resources that you can use on your self-love journey. So one of the things that I want
0:39.2	to offer you today is my self-love playlist on Spotify. Now this playlist is Liddy Titty for lack of
0:46.5	better words. There's over 200 empowering, fun, uplifting songs on there that I listen to anytime
0:53.9	I need a self-love pick me up.
0:55.9	This is a playlist that I also listen to with my little sister.
0:59.1	She's 12 and some of the songs are explicit, but, you know, I push those boundaries.
1:04.5	So just a little FYI there that some of the songs do have language and stuff like that in them,
1:09.9	but they are fun and empowering,
1:12.5	nevertheless. So if you want the link to this secret Spotify self-love playlist,
1:17.8	ha ha, say that five times fast, secret Spotify self-love playlist, then you can just click the link
1:23.5	in the show notes. It'll take you directly to the page or just Google Mary's self-love playlist.
1:29.3	If you type that into Google, it's the first link that pops up and you will be taken directly
1:34.5	to Spotify and you'll also get emailed a link to the playlist so that way you'll never lose it.
1:39.9	So make sure you go grab that link. Like I said, either in the show notes or you can just Google it.
1:44.1	We have about, I think like 3,000 people already have this self-love playlist.
1:49.5	There's over 200 songs in it and counting because I add to this playlist nearly every single
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