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Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. We dig into her new book How To Lose Everything a self-described "grief bio" which she describes in point-form as "cancer, amputation, death, death, divorce and more cancer".  She shares her life’s losses from having her leg amputated as a cure for her cancer as a teen to losing 2 sons as babies to her divorce to her 2nd episode of cancer.  We discuss the need for our culture to normalize differences among people in terms of disability & neurodivergence. We also talk about coming to terms with the idea that sometimes finding meaning in suffering and loss can be elusive and she explains her thinking around shaping her life experience into a book that could be shared.

“I used to sit at my piano and just banging on the piano, saying all kinds of things. Just sobbing. And it's moving through you. And those aren't moments that anyone should witness. They're cathartic. And I think how I know when it's something that I can craft or it's something that I believe won't be too much, won't be too raw is kind of by feeling: it's beyond catharsis. It's now more expression or storytelling. I don't know who said it, but there's this idea of writing from the scar, not the wound. And so I think it's also the timing. If I'd written this book sooner, it probably would have been a bit raw, a bit too messy, maybe a bit burdensome, you know. I didn't want to tell these hard things in a way that left the reader kind of stuck with them. I always had this idea that I was sort of holding my hands up saying like, 'Look, but you don't have to touch it and I'm not going to drop it on your lap. It's mine. And I will take care of it, but you can see.' And I think that just kind of came with time.”

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