In the years since, I have published New York Times bestselling books that have been translated to 20 languages written hundreds of cover stories, features, profiles, opinion pieces, and reviews for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Time, People, Slate, Salon, O, The Oprah Magazine, New York Magazine, Parents, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self, Redbook, Town and Country, Working Mother, Women’s Health and many others become a contributing editor and weekly “Dear Therapist” columnist at The Atlantic and contributed regular commentaries to NPR. While there, my first book was published and ultimately I decided to pursue writing full-time. In my twenties, I focused on visual storytelling as a film and television executive until I returned to Stanford for medical school. The professional part of my story goes like this: I studied language and culture first at Yale and then at Stanford University, where I explored beliefs and traditions across the globe-and immersed myself in those stories. Our own role might change, too-from bit player to lead, from victim to hero. Some major characters might become minor ones, and some minor characters may take on star billing. What first got included in the telling may now be left out, and what was left out may become a central plot point. Of course, in the best of therapy and writing, the story we start out with may not be the story we end up with.
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