A Wee Existential Crisis

About this episode

Amanda Knox reflects on her journey and the complexities of identity after overcoming a long personal struggle.

What do you do when the thing that gave your life shape is finally, imperfectly, done? In this solo episode, Amanda Knox reads an original essay about arriving at the other side of an eighteen-year fight for her own story. She writes about motherhood, the fear of being called a narcissist for mining her own trauma, Bo Burnham, and the stubborn suspicion that measuring yourself against the worst thing that ever happened to you might be exactly the wrong way to keep score. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Amanda Knox

Topics covered

• existential crisis
• motherhood
• personal trauma
• self-reflection
• identity

Keywords

• existential crisis
• motherhood
• trauma
• self-reflection
• Bo Burnham

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