An interview with author Susan Conley about her experience of coping with breast cancer in China, while parenting two young boys. Susan describes how writing helped her work through her deep fear and sadness about her boys possibly not having a mother.  She also talks about “pre-writing” and how she had struggled with resentment of those without cancer, and how that dissipated through the act of writing itself.  Susan describes her decision to write as honestly as possible, exposing less than ideal parenting, or spousal moments as part of her story.  We end the interview with a discussion of the Telling Room, which Susan co-founded.  She describes the ways that supporting children to write and tell their story can give them a powerful new sense of identity and of being heard and valued.  Susan’s book is, The Foremost Good Fortune.