How I Escaped Iran & Wrote My Way to Freedom | My Name Means Fire Author Atash Yaghmaian
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Atash Yaghmaian discusses how writing helped her navigate trauma and achieve freedom while living with dissociative identity disorder.
Send us Fan Mail What if the condition that made your life unmanageable was also the source of your greatest gifts? In this episode, I sit down with Atash Yaghmaian, a therapist, activist, and author of My Name Means Fire, to explore how writing became the bridge between her many parts, her trauma, and ultimately her freedom. Atash lives with dissociative identity disorder (DID), and shares what that means: not as something to be feared, but as a brilliant survival mechanism that carried her ...
People in this episode
Host: Lisa Cooper Ellison
Guest: Atash Yaghmaian
Topics covered
- resilience
- trauma
- writing
- mental health
- freedom
- dissociative identity disorder
Keywords
- resilience
- trauma
- writing
- freedom
- dissociative identity disorder
- mental health
- My Name Means Fire
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Books & works: My Name Means Fire
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