Jowita Bydlowska on Her Memoir "Unshaming"
What if every relapse was also a moment of hope?
In this episode, we sit down with Jowita Bydlowska, author of the groundbreaking memoir Drunk Mom and her new hybrid memoir, Unshaming. Jowita takes us into the part of the recovery story most books skip: what happens after the happy ending, when relapse returns and shame becomes its own addiction. We talk about why women authors are always asked if their fiction is secretly true, how Drunk Mom began as a novel until an agent asked how much of it was real, and why rigorous honesty gave her more freedom than any secret ever could. Jowita opens…
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