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Renée Shafransky is a writer and psychotherapist with a background in theater and film. Tips for Living, to be published by Lake Union in 2018, is her first novel. She has directed theatrical works by Spalding Gray and Jon Robin Baitz, among others. She produced the award-winning film, Swimming to Cambodia, directed by Jonathan Demme, as well as Variety, by Bette Gordon, which was selected for preservation in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art. Penning screenplays for major studios as well as teleplays for HBO and PBS, she counts Harold Ramis and Mike Newell among the directors she has worked with. Starting as a journalist in the 1980s, her articles have been published in The Village Voice and Condé Nast Traveler (optioned for the ...more

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Renee Shafransky I take long walks and try not to force anything. I find that a block can mean you are pushing in a direction your unconscious doesn't want to go. It h…moreI take long walks and try not to force anything. I find that a block can mean you are pushing in a direction your unconscious doesn't want to go. It has other things in store.(less)

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“It’s called an emotion because it’s meant to move. Just breathe and let it.”
― Renee Shafransky, Tips for Living

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“Don’t trouble trouble till trouble troubles you,” Aunt Lada would say. She’d be right.”
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“Anger’s importance. Anger told you when someone crossed your line. “Don’t tread on me,” anger said. You had to pass through anger, and the hurt underneath it, before you could get to forgiveness. Otherwise, it seemed to me, you skipped a step. But there was also plenty of danger there. How long could you hold on to that dark fire before it scorched all that was good in your life? And what was the best way to let anger out?”
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