Marsha Jacobson - The Wrong Calamity
Marsha Jacobson is an author, teacher, and writing coach from New York, has overcame her challenging childhood, abusive relationship, and personal struggles to build a successful career and a fulfilling life.
As a young woman who grew up lacking self-confidence, Marsha fell prey to an administrator at her college. She agreed to marry him and moved to Japan, where a chance meeting lead to a high-stakes job. As she became more successful and her confidence increased, her husband became more abusive and when they returned to America, she escaped from him.
She found the means to go to Harvard Business School where she earned an MBA and went on to have a significant career in non-profit management while raising her girls and dealing with her ex-husband. Later, she remarried and had a happy marriage until her husband’s buried past revealed itself and their life together deteriorated as he struggled with PTSD. Eventually though their marriage shatters and Marsha had to find her way again. With time, reflection, resiliency, and the ability to recognise support when it’s offered, Marsha emerged sure-footed with a happy, fulfilling life.
Marsha’s work has appeared in the New York Times; the Visible Ink anthology; and the flash fiction anthology, For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. Her memoir, The Wrong Calamity, is her debut book.
In this podcast:
The importance of embracing change and transitions as part of personal growth.
Adopting coping mechanisms such as "tiny experiments" and writing fake headlines to shift perspective.
Reframing challenges as learning opportunities.
"Narrative building" as a strategy for reframing challenges.
To find out more about Marsha at https://marshajacobsonauthor.com/about/ Her book is The Wrong Calamity.
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