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LET IT OUT

writing rituals & mental health with Jeni McFarland + current favorites!

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This summer we decided to do our first book club and we chose The House of Deep Water by today's guest Jeni McFarland. This conversation covers trauma, therapy, mental health, Jeni's writing rituals, and how’s she taking care of herself in the pandemic. It’s a shorter conversation so I’m going to get back into the habit of something I used to do years ago which is sharing some of my "favorites."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Healing happens when it happens, how it happens.

0:05.0

You just gotta let it.

0:06.0

And you can't force it.

0:07.0

You can't make it happen on the schedule that suits you.

0:11.0

Oh, let it out. Let It Out.

0:23.6

Let It Out. I'm Katie Out. I'm to Let It Out.

0:40.3

I'm Katie Dalebout.

0:41.9

This year, we decided to do a Let It Out book club for the first time, a summer book club.

0:47.6

And my best friend, Carolina, who you guys know, she's done the podcast, friend of ours,

0:53.1

was helping me figure out which book to do back in

0:57.6

June and she's an avid reader and we decided or rather she brought me this book called the

1:06.8

house of deep water that was written by jen McFarlane, who is today's guest.

1:12.7

And it is a book that takes place in Michigan, which is my home state.

1:17.0

It was a new book this spring, is a new book, but it came out this spring.

1:21.1

And I really wanted to support a new author who had to put out a book during the pandemic,

1:25.1

cancel their book tour, cancel all the celebration,

1:28.0

and I wanted to do, not that I was able to do much, but I wanted to choose this book.

1:35.1

And because it sounded really wonderful.

1:38.6

Turns out it was.

1:41.4

Jenny McFarlane has a unique voice and writing style and turns out she's a lovely person as well,

1:48.7

which you'll hear in this conversation. I loved getting to know her and speak with her,

1:54.8

and she even was a part of our actual book club hang, meeting, conversation. It was obviously on Zoom. I would love to keep doing

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