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“It’s not about whether I believe this is good every day. It’s whether I can relate to this critical mind and understand that that’s just a part of my nervous system trying to protect me from the fear of ‘Will anyone read this?’…and understanding that the way I relate to that…is the journey.”

Dr. Tanmeet Sethi is a Joy Activist with a mission to give people access to their innate human right to their own joy practice. 

In this episode, we talked about the writing and publishing of her debut memoir, Joy is My Justice (May 2023, Hachette Go).

 INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS 

• What it felt like to sit down and start with a blank page
• How the theme of the book changed (quite dramatically) during the writing of it
• How Tanmeet vacillated between “I’m going to be on Oprah” and “Who ever thought they would put this in a book?”
• The importance of self-compassion, which Tanmeet believes is the seed for EVERYTHING

• How writers can understand how to feel safe when putting their stories and perspectives out there, on display, for the entire wor

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