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Maisie Williams

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“Where it will go next. It will never be erased because, like, it's a vital part of who you are. And like without it, like, you would be an entirely different person. It's like, what is that film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? He gets his relationship removed from his brain, basically. Wait, I don't know if you've seen it.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And every time that your brain doesn't manage to do that, it's not like going straight back to that place, that point, even though that's the way your body's reacting. It's like you're still at this point in the journey of life. And this is how you're experiencing it in this moment. And like it's not like, oh, you failed at like healing because like there's no end to it. It's just. Know, in this moment, what can you learn? Your brain has gone back there, even though like previously you've managed to avoid this or you've managed to sort of like avoid a trigger or like, you know, rewire something. But it hasn't this time. So it's like, what can we learn from looking at it this time? How do I see it differently to a time when I would have like done this before? It just keeps going like every minute is like an opportunity to see.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like I feel like just like experiencing it all in the moment. Interesting and like not sort of like predicting that there's like an end to it, but you go like huh, I have been in this situation before and like last time I wasn't aware of these triggers and now I see exactly what's what wants to happen and I'm not going to do it and like there's the piece of your brain that's like actively making those decisions and going but then there's the like I don't know, consciousness or like, you know, the spirit that then observes it and goes, huh. What happens next? Like you're playing a board game, right? And like something happens. Then, like you're sort of above it, and you go, Where will this go next?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know Well, I have some theories on it. I don't know, it doesn't concern just me. I don't know. Yeah, just like I think that I've witnessed. Like people just feeling like just them existing in one spot is like them just taking up too much room in this world. And I think that I've like just taken on a piece of that where like just living and breathing like you're too much and like you're irritating so. But it's not true. And if anyone ever feels like that, it's not true.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like I'd go to someone's house and I'd like my shoes. And like maybe they're not in the right place, and I haven't put my bag in this parent is going to like not like me or like whatever. I've felt that like. Self awareness to that degree where I've like critiqued and like beat myself up since I was very, very small. Yeah, I don't really know. I don't know where it comes from yet. I'll let you know.”
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“And, like, there's something about going into that state that brings up a little ticket. And I go, ah, like that's, but I haven't quite figured out the answer to this one yet or where it like initially stems from. But I've definitely felt like embarrassed of myself or ashamed or like, you know, thought, oh, like I'd be playing at a kids' house and thinking like their parents thinks that I'm like awful. I'm like the child that all parents don't want their kids to hang out with. Like I just felt this way about myself and I was like, you know, I wasn't trying to get them to do like naughty things or anything. I just was like a kid that was just like, but I thought, you know, I'm like.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like I felt self-conscious even before all of that. So it definitely before fame. And so it definitely was enhanced by that. But I think it came a lot earlier. I'm actually still trying to figure this out, like at the moment with my therapist. We're trying to really trace that back. And a lot of this has come, a lot of the discovery has come through meditation. I've been doing a lot of transcendental meditation.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't really have a very good opinion of myself and myself image. It's, I forget that. I really didn't like myself that much. I don't know. I just told myself that Was like awful and disgusting and like an attractive and unkind. Not a good person and like unlikable. I just told myself that like every single day. And so in ways I sort of became like that because you just like beat yourself into a mess, you know, mind is quite powerful in that way.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't The hardest, like, most awful and traumatic, like, oh, it was like terrible. It wasn't. It was fine. But I just knew that something better was coming”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, when it came out. Yeah. I just didn't really go out a lot and I... I just felt quite Just, I don't know, it was just like the most successful it was ever going to be, and it was like most people would recognize you on the street. And, like, I had just got so rehearsed at like, oh, thank you, that's so nice. And I just like everything I said and felt and did, it was just like, oh, none of this is, it's like, um, I felt like very going through the motions of life where it was like, yeah.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I was kind of like very ready for that. And it wasn't like, oh, who am I? I was kind of like, ooh, who could I be, you know?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is all very good things to want, but it's like it wasn't like very authentic, it was like just like trying to be liked, I guess, right? And then you're like, oh, I actually, you know, I don't want to do things that make people like happy because like I want to do things that make me happy. And like I want to, you know, represent myself the way that makes me feel most comfortable and not like just the way that's most like palatable or like whatever. And so I'd already got to the point where I was like, oh, this isn't really me. And I'm like desperate for something to just like drastically change so as I can like cut from that. And that's sort of what happened when the show ended, then also sort of sped up by the pandemic. Being solitary.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, in a way, but I felt like I had got to a point already within being in the show that I was like, oh, I feel like I'm like cosplaying as this like person I've created And I don't think that this really is who I am. So sort of leaving the show meant that I could leave that as well. Know, I kind of like wanted to like say the right thing and do the right thing and like act like I had everything figured out and like be a good role model and you know”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. Like, I know that that in itself is like an incredibly privileged position to be in Like money won't take the pain away. Will take the stacking bills or, you know. Or the fear of losing a house, you know.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Making money and like making enough money to live and like Support their family, but being able to do those things. The only thing that makes you happy. When you take that problem away. Sometimes still a very hard discussion that you have to have with yourself where it's like, yeah, like a fundamental chat where you have to. Well, I don't know a lot, I think. Don't want to take away from the fact that having money enables you to even be able to comprehend or like”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely like. Yeah, real like the guilt around like. Allowing yourself to have nice things or do nice things because you're like able to. I felt like when I was a kid, everything stopped happening and all my problems were going to go away. And then all my problems didn't go away. And then I was sat for life when I was 12. And I thought, all my problems are going to go away. And I was like, well, it's not like that unless all of my friends and family are that way too. Because like, how are we all supposed to be okay if only one person is okay? And You give people what you can, but you don't see the pain, take the pain away for another person, doesn't take the pain away for yourself. And then you realize that actually life is something else entirely. And like the biggest problem that a lot of people face is...”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To struggle to make rent and want to be a creative person and not know whether to get a sensible job or to like, because I don't know what that struggle is like at all. So, yeah, I know that I sometimes worry that I'm like alienated in some ways because it will happen when I was so young and like literally from the age of 12 I've been like set for life. And that's like very different to how I was like before that age.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And like, you know, have always had an awareness of how hard my mom worked, like raising us, giving us everything that, you know, she did and put in field on the table. But I never. I remember when I was sort of 18, and a lot of my friends started going to uni, getting jobs, whatever. I remember I was like, I never, even though I know what that struggle was like growing up, like I've never struggled to get a job or struggled to make rent or anything like that. And I think. Not that I would change that, of course. Like, I'm so fortunate, but I guess I never wanted, I never. To lose sight of the perspective of just how fortunate that I've been and like just how tone deaf it is for me to believe that I like would understand what it's like to.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like acting when I was super young The only thing I really feel like we didn't have a lot growing up, but like I've never...”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be honest with you, like I wish that I'd have just trolled it all a bit more. And like whatever I like instead of really digging deep and going, oh, what is the real, just like whatever you feel that day? That's okay. And it can change the next day because that is just like life. You don't have to be beholden to anything that you've said or done. You can let it all go and like rip up the rulebook. I hated London, moved back to Manchester, went to New York and actually I'm going to go back to London. And it's not going to be like something that you're like, oh, I wish I hadn't done this. Like, you're like, no, this is what I want now. And that's like. That's just sort of the way it is. So I kind of wish that I'd have just, you know, not just tortured myself to know like, what is the real answer to these Silly, fun questions.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. Actually, the strangest thing about it, the hardest thing, I think, was that Like needing to articulate who I was and what I loved and things that I didn't like and what I had an opinion on and what like, you know. Yeah, that I remember at the time being like, oh gosh, I really don't know anything about anything. I really need to know these things. I need to, you know But then, like, you know, years later, you go like, oh, I said that my favorite film was this. And like, that's not true. And it's like you don't need to know any of that stuff. No, like it's all just like a journey, right? It's all like there's never like an end.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's like two parts of it. It was like how I felt like within my body, like everything floated away and like the way that it felt to move my body or the way that it felt to like contort my voice or like whatever. It just like that feeling when you're like can't stop laughing, it was just like incredible. And then there was the way that it made other people feel. I guess like with acting with dancing, it was like it was very much about the way that it felt and not necessarily the way that it looked or like how other people would experience it. But with acting, it's like you get that sort of two-way thing. And I also saw the joy that it would bring other people. And like, I guess like you don't, you're like not disappointing. You're like making someone laugh or you're making someone happy or you're like, and that was like.”
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“What I read. I'd love to read that because that's like exactly what I instinctively like discovered. Like it just happened and I thought, ah, like this is what I'm supposed to do.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, definitely. And I think it was because I the only time that I really felt that joy that I saw in other people was when I was like dancing or performing. And there was this feeling that I would get that I was like, this is like, I feel like human, you know. And so I was like, I've just got to do anything I can to like do this forever. And so from a very young age, I was like, I want to go to stage school and I want to, yeah, I'm happy to leave everything and go and do that. And yeah, so I really every opportunity was Yeah, I guess that little part that you said, like, I've got nothing to lose. It was like, yeah, on the other side of this could be absolutely.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I had an audition before that, which I also was very excited about and then didn't get. So that was like my first like. Professional rejection. But you”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. I just like going into the room, I meant. Oh, no, I'm not going to be what they're looking for. But I did end up being what they were looking for. But I just. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. I don't know. Did you like? Always feel ever feel like disappointing.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Problems that come from the same problem, problem, problem. But yeah, I mean, it's like, you know Going into that audition to play Aria Stark, I was sort of surrounded by girls that like were joyous and were. Free and Like they were kids, they were kids who were happy and, you know. Had whatever they had. And I thought, wow, I really, you know, here we go again, like going to be a disappointment. But, you know, for that moment, actually, that was what they needed. And so that was sort of like a moment in my life where I was like, huh, maybe this thing isn't all bad. Maybe there can be something like beautiful that comes from, you know, this part of myself that I find like. Natural, like, or like just different to other kids.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like now there's some sort of closure to it where the journey might help other people. Whereas before it was just like pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, and no like. Right, right. No, like, okay, we're through the other side. Yeah, it was just like other.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything that I do as an actor, like I get to access all of that confusion and pain in my job and I get to like really feel it in like every fiber of my being. But there's no like consequence and there's no like you're not really shouting at anyone or hurting someone or it's like it's all pretend but like the emotion is is real and like just being able to like let that out is something that I didn't do for a long time. And so it's like it's just all sort of came to the surface. And I guess like holding, you know. The early part of my story, like to myself, is also just because I haven't really understood it the way that I have now. And I'm sure I'll understand it far better in the future.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah it you know I think when I was like 12 and I'd done a bit of Game of Thrones and was doing interviews then like the first interviews that I'd ever done I remember people sort of being like, but you're so young, like, how do you show this pain like you've just seen like the death of your father or like, how do you know that like how do you act that sort of fury? And I just like in my head was like, that's a really stupid question because I've known how that feels. But like, you know, it's like I don't know, something nice to just like leave in the past, I guess. But it's hugely influenced.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, definitely. I think that I really wanted to control a lot of things that you just can't control because like if I don't, then if I'm not worrying or thinking about this or like wanting to control this, then it's all going to fall down and then I'll blame myself and it will be something that I could have done better or should have done differently. I feel like Guess it was more just like trying to control the uncontrollable and that then leading to like another way that I could like. Myself down, you know.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. And so that's kind of like how I feel about him now, where I'm just like, what if he would make a fascinating documentary? And it's like nice to Know not feel the personal pain of that anymore and actually just think like. Know if any of the answers to that will like help me in my journey, but it is sort of like a nicer way to think of him than as like someone who doesn't love me or like me or like whatever.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know his daughter, and like it could have been like literally anyone like experiencing that pain and it would like still be the same. And then I just kind of could separate myself from it a little bit and I could start to sort of reflect on him as a person and be like what happens that you get so stuck in your mind that you can just like you know permanently like mistreat people What Like your own children. But, you know. Taking that step back and seeing it like more objectively kind of like makes me quite interested in the guy. I don't know him at all. And I'm like, what happened to you when you were a kid? Like, who are your parents? Is this something that you were always like when you were a kid? Did you like pull the legs off bugs or Know, did this? Did you learn this? Like, you know.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah I felt like there was something inherently wrong with me or us because like we did lots of things wrong all the time which is like why you know You know, you'd be mistreated or whatever because you're like, Oh, we really need to be better at this because we keep doing things wrong and we keep. In trouble type thing. But then I was like, well, you know, like, and especially, well, because it was someone, you know, a parent and I felt like, oh, they're supposed to like like you. And so. Know, but then I was like, well, what if there's just no connection between me being?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, to be honest with you, I've been thinking about this a lot. Like, I've been trying to do this thing where I stop taking things personally and not just like, you know, when someone's had a bad day and they push in front of you in the queue, but like the big things in life. Like what if I said that it was like it wasn't because of me that that happened like If I wasn't there, it would have been something else. Like, it's not. Yeah, it wasn't like because Something wrong with me that, like, these bad things happened when I was a child.”
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“You can feel. You know, so liberated and free, and at the same time just like that impending doom is kind of still there Yeah, It's like all your problems don't just sort of like go away, you know. Yeah, you still care a lot about that person or you still sort of understand. The pain or whatever that led to those very, very poor decisions”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So I really was sort of fighting it for at the beginning. But basically, like my whole. Well, like flips on its head. And even though all these things that I was feeling, I thought, oh my God, I'm so glad I don't have to see my dad anymore It still was like against everything that I had ever knew to be true, you know?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I do think it's important because. I had so many people who loved and cared about me so much, but I'd never been asked the right questions where I could really say what was wrong. And my mum came to school and picked me up and my siblings were also at secondary school at the time and they. Some of them were with mum. One was not, and they were with dad still. And yeah. And it was the first time that, like, it was all of the doors were sort of open and all of these things that we were experiencing were like out on the table. Was really, really hard because I still wanted to fight and say no, like these things aren't bad. Like you're trying to take me away from my dad and that's wrong, you know, like. Because I was like indoctrinated in a way, like, you know.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, when I was about eight, um, Quite like a complex string of events that happened. But basically it had met its peak. And I was at school and I guess I was, well, I mean, obviously I was really struggling. And I don't really know what happened, but I was taken by a teacher to the staff room. She was saying, like, what's wrong, you know, like, what's happened? Are you hungry? Well, she said, I don't know, are you hungry? I said, yeah. She said, did you eat breakfast? And I said, no. And she said, Oh, why not? And I said, we just didn't have any breakfast. And, you know, and then she says, well, you know, do you normally have breakfast? And he's not really. And so, you know, this sort of, they were asking the right questions.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yah going like nothing's wrong, like nothing is wrong, everything's the way that it's supposed to be. But it wasn't. But I just would tell myself that, what is wrong with you?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I Had that sense of impending doom and I didn't know how to make it go away. I had Great memories. I don't even know, it's hard to remember a lot of them, a lot of those times that I felt very free. I was actually on my own. I would never have thought I was like an introverted person like I always would have thought that I was quite extroverted because. I perform a lot for people, you know. But yeah, I struggled. And just thought, how do I stop feeling like this and just feel like? Everything's okay, you know?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think like You know, when you watch kids play. And like there's struggles and there's tiffs and there's like whatever, but there's like Like complete inhibition, right? And it's just like running, or it's like going on the slide, or it's like. I felt like I would often stop in a situation like that. I'd be doing something and then I would just stop and be like, something awful is going to happen. Just like I couldn't continue.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I guess it feels like a lot of people are trying to retreat to being a child and like the things that brought you joy and like who you are at your core. Who you are when no one's looking But, you know, can that part of you be so damaged from a very young age that you could be searching for something that You know, is just for you to make up. It's a really interesting question.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, kind of like discovering that and being like, yes, I struggle with my identity and knowing who I am. So that brings me anxiety because I don't know who to be in a social situation. But then also sort of going back far enough that you're like, oh, I don't know if that person really exists anymore. And that's okay because I can find, you know, something. Yeah, find a good. Version of myself. But yeah, I don't know. What do you think about that?”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where, you know, certain situations can really stunt, like, or just alter forever, like who you are going to become. And that's not to say that you can't also just like become a very peaceful Content and fulfilled person. But like that sort of basic instinct of like, what do I, what brings me joy? You know, you've kind of second-guessed that a lot as a kid and you're not known, you know, whether to trust what you really think or feel or, you know, whatever sort of like mental manipulation. And that can, yeah, really have like lasting effects.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but I guess I think like a lot of that anxiety as I started to sort of recognize it came from like not really being myself and like then feeling anxious about Being perceived or whatever, but knowing that you're not really being honest, and that will, of course, make you very anxious because if you have no idea who you're projecting, then you really have no idea how other people are going to hear it because you don't even know how you mean it. And, you know, that sort of like facade of like, I don't know, whoever, you know, whoever I thought was like capable of like getting through interviews or social like settings or whatever. And I think that like struggle with identity and the big questions of who am I? I think that everyone struggles with that. But I think that, like, you know, there's a period of your childhood.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, definitely I think that people sort of talk about like rewiring people on your podcast actually speak about rewiring your brain but that first in order to do that you have to recognize when your brain is doing a pattern that you want to rewire. And quite often like it's already triggered so many things and like you're in a bad mood and you have no idea why it's hard to kind of like trace back from that point. So like that awareness Like finding that kind of for me had to come first, like when it really started to, I don't know, when I really started to understand it, it was like capturing those minutes where I was like, why does that make me feel really uncertain? Angry or like make me want to Shower someone like what is that? And then you can start to go like. It's okay and work your way back, you know.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No I like you. I don't know. I feel like this is It's something that I've been like learning a lot about recently, and I feel like I can speak about it now.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, before I was born, actually, well, no, I guess she escaped when I was about four months old, so it was, you know, bad before that. And then, yeah.”
2022-09-26 · The Diary of a CEO · Maisie Williams: The Painful Past Of A Game Of Thrones Star · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know everything changed, and I sort of became this Character who Who wouldn't let anything bad happen to her or anyone around her? And yeah, I guess like maybe there is some sort of like connection between those two things.”
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