The Art Of Going Silent | Jessimae Peluso

About this episode

Jessimae Peluso discusses her journey through grief, burnout, and creativity after a three-month hiatus to write her first book.

EPISODE 29: THE ART OF GOING SILENT | Jessimae Peluso Dying Laughing with Jessimae After stepping away for three months to finish her first book, Jessimae returns with an honest, funny, and unexpectedly emotional conversation about grief, burnout, creativity, and what happens when you stop feeding the machine long enough to hear yourself again. In this episode, she talks about the challenges of creative exhaustion, self-motivation, learning how to focus and how to use that focus to your advantage when building something meaningful. She also opens up about unlearning and undoing parts of who she thought she was, her experience at the Hoffman Institute, and the emotional chaos of writing honestly about family, grief… and exes while somewhat sober. Jessimae reflects on disappearing from the internet, the pressure of constant visibility, the strange state of the world while she was gone, and how some healing and transformation can only happen in private. Raw, reflective, and darkly funny, this episode marks the beginning of a new chapter for Dying Laughing. 💀 Subscribe, rate, and tag your griefiest friend. 🎁 EMAIL US: JessimaePelusoComedy@gmail.com ☎️ CALL/TEXT US: 513-916-0930…

People in this episode

Host: Jessimae Peluso

Topics covered

• grief
• burnout
• creativity
• self-motivation
• emotional healing
• personal transformation

Keywords

• grief
• burnout
• creativity
• self-improvement
• Hoffman Institute
• emotional chaos
• writing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hoffman Institute

Books & works: Consider Death

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