Episode description

JAM chats with Maiya Katherine, author of An Apology to My Demons: The skeletons in her closet were not her enemies. They were her army, about how she turned her traumas into art with the goal of helping people who are stuck where she’s already been. She talks about her writing process and how drawing inspiration from other people fuels her writing, and she explains how she came to understand her toxic behaviors as adaptations that were only meant to serve her temporarily while she grew and healed.

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