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Hey, it's Marielle.
If I were to make a list of the things that scare a lot of people,
a greatest hits list for our collective fears, here's what would be on it.
Death, rejection.
Public speaking, spiders, showing up on the day of the midterm, two hours late and without a pencil, and the blank page.
Yeah, I would put writer's block on that list of big scaries.
So many of us are afraid to start writing because we judge ourselves,
because we've been told we're no good at it, because we don't know what to say.
But writer Suleika Juad is here to tell you it's worth your time to try.
I've been keeping a journal for as long as I could hold a pen and have hundreds
of journals from the time I was a kid.
Space and a rarer space where I got to show up as my most unedited, unvarnished self.
And it wasn't for anyone.
It was just for me.
It became an especially sacred space when Zuleika was diagnosed with leukemia
and in the moment since that she's been in cancer treatment or coping with its effects.