Professor and author Molly Gaudry on brain injury, identity shifts, and living between two versions of herself

On Pushing Forward with Alycia, Alycia Anderson welcomes writer and teacher Molly Gaudry, founder of Lit Pub and author of We Take Me Apart and Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir, to discuss storytelling, identity, and memory. Molly shares being born in Korea, adopted, and growing up in northeast Ohio, where early language acquisition and school support shaped her love of reading and writing. Molly recounts a 2011 concussion that led to months of double vision and sensory overload. She eventually addressed it through vision therapy and an exploratory study at the University of Utah that taught coping strategies rather than a cure. She reflects on how the injury reshaped her boundaries, pace, and happiness.

Featured Reads from Molly Gaudry

Molly’s latest book Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir offers a deeply personal exploration of identity, memory, and living in a body reshaped by brain injury. She also recommends The Braille Encyclopedia by fellow author Naomi Cohn, a powerful collection that reimagines sight, perception, and the sensory experience of the world.

Quotes from Molly

I think there’s a takeaway of  how hard it was to face the idea of letting go, and then what it was like to fight for it.

~ Molly Gaudry

It feels like there is no other choice but to hustle and to say yes to everything, so that you’re doing more than the next person. But I wouldn’t say that’s healthy, mentally or physically.

~ Molly Gaudry

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