DownWrite Mad

This second episode of the DownWrite Mad podcast series features author Catherine Madison. Cathy is not only an editor whom I could not possibly live without, and who knows my work as well as, if not better than I know it myself, but she is also an author in her own right. I met Cathy over a decade ago when I was living in Hollywood, shortly after she had published her book THE WAR CAME HOME WITH HIM: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR. Cathy and her book taught me so much about writing, about how important...

In this pilot episode of DownWrite Mad, I interview Emma Goude, documentary filmmaker and author of MY BEAUTIFUL PSYCHOSIS.I first met Emma on Twitter, and after reading her memoir, I asked if she would add us (Safely Held Spaces and Soteria House London) to her book tour. As an author who writes in the same genre, I was humbled to read about her lived experience of psychosis, and how it differed from my own journey as a witness to my son's extreme states. Emma captured the ineffable with suc...