Our newest episode of #howtofallapart is up now with my brilliant friend and colleague journalist and author Emily Hourican, whose new book The Outsider is just out. Five years ago she was diagnosed with HPV mouth cancer. We talked about her husband David kept everything going so she could let all the balls drop, her treatment which involved her bolted to the table in a mask she compared to the man in the iron mask (swipe), about being self employed and having to keep going (she wrote an incredible column for the Sunday Independent during all of this) and not being able to just disappear into getting through, about anger when the narrative of your life changes from what you had planned, and how to cope when the person you thought you were vanishes. Emily is incredibly eloquent and honest, really grateful to her for such generosity