One Way Back A Memoir

and Busy Phillips was the last one who not for nothing but last week was celebrating Christine Blasey Ford at the release of her book and thanking her for her bravery and so on

Dr. Ford's memoir which I absolutely loved and finished in one day, it's called One Way Back and it's available now.

Thank you for changing the world that way for us and thank you for One Way Back. It was so beautiful.

And then afterward, I started getting a lot of correspondence from people particularly survivors. And then I started to identify as a survivor and feel connected to this huge community. It's an epidemic. I think 25% of the people who wrote to me wrote their story in a letter and shared it and many of them were sharing it for the first time and had never told anyone.

Reading your book, Glemmon, was actually really helpful when I was getting over a lot of these things in the aftermath that you knew you were going to have to do something difficult and you don't exactly know how it's going to play out and what you're going to do and how it's going to work and so I really resonated when I was listening to your book and it seemed like your story was almost my story right even though there weren't anything alike in the context but that idea that you know something has happened that's going to change your life forever and it's going to affect other people around you but and it's going to happen but you just don't know yet exactly how.

I talk about this because the same words were said by my therapist and by my boss like you don't owe anyone anything and many people said they're going to ruin your life and things like that but they're going to ruin your life as a little abstract so I didn't really get that I just thought oh well that's okay you know I'm not gonna see the people and if they call me the B word or whatever it'll just be like a tree falling in some forest and I won't know about it so I kind of underestimated what that was gonna look like but the we don't owe anyone anything it just never resonated with me I couldn't quite get it so I never really internalize that and maybe I should internalize it a little more but if we don't owe anyone anything we don't owe each other anything it just seems then we're not a community I think a community is we do owe each other something but also if I was younger I don't know that I would have felt that way I'm an adult and I feel like why you know I've had a great life and I'm only one life so if they ruin one life then and it helps a bunch of other people then yeah I just couldn't really make sense of the you don't owe anyone anything.

Dr. Ford's memoir, which I absolutely loved and finished in one day, it's called One Way Back, and it's available now.

Thank you for changing the world that way for us, and thank you from one way back. It was so beautiful.

Reading your book, Glennon, was actually really helpful when I was getting over a lot of these things in the aftermath.

And it seemed like your story was almost my story, right? Even though they weren't anything alike in the context.

I'm pretty honest in the book about, well, if this had happened in my workplace, I don't even know what I would have done.