What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf with Matthew Quick

<p>Matthew Quick is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <a href="https://matthewquickwriter.com/novels/the-silver-linings-playbook/"><em>The Silver Linings Playbook</em></a>—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an <em>LA Times</em> Book Prize finalist, a <em>New York Times Book Review</em> Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em> has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.</p> <p>But wait, there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. <a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. </a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p> <p>Matthew Quick and I Discuss What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf and …</p> <ul> <li>His book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9781668005422">We Are the Light</a></li> <li>What drew him to Jungian analysis and his ideas on synchronicity</li> <li>His healing journey and what he learned about himself</li> <li>Learning to face his pain from a sober light</li> <li>Losing access to a creative part of him when he stopped drinking</li> <li>How his work with his analyst replaced the alcohol in his life</li> <li>The importance of community</li> <li>What the term “father hunger” means</li> <li>His unique relationship with his analyst</li> <li>How he learned to redeem his father</li> <li>The important themes he covers in his latest novels</li> <li>Doing the hard work in the second half of life</li> <li>The respect he has developed for the craft of novel writing</li> </ul> <p>Matthew Quick Links</p> <p><a href="https://matthewquickwriter.