During the interview, Caroline remarked on the great detail that was included in the memoir. Weintraub explained, “…I had kept some journals and you know when you’re on bed rest for five months, there’s not much going on, right? You have a lot of time to think and process and write things down and so when I started writing that first draft, it wasn’t fifteen years ago, it was, you know, it had been five years before, and so I was able to remember a lot of that.” One of the challenges for authors when writing memoirs is having to take private, sometimes painful, moments and presenting them out to the world in a way that is respectful to those involved. For her, she said, “This is so difficult and I really had to think about what my story was going to do to other people and how they were going to feel about it…you know, I gave it a lot of thought and what I decided is when I wrote a scene I said, ‘Is this necessary for the arc of the story? Did this give this story forward momentum? Can I leave it out?’…If I could leave out a painful scene, then I left it out because my intention is not to hurt anybody, it’s to tell a story.” In the end, she was able to leave out many parts she felt were not completely necessary while still being able to get her point across and tell her story authentically.
Since the release of her book, Weintraub has received positive feedback and made personal connections with many of her readers. She added that one of the reasons she wrote this book was to help release her trauma and connect with women so they could feel comfortable also releasing their trauma. She recalled a time recently in which she had come across an old acquaintance who confided in her and shared their own harrowing life experience and from that conversation, Weintraub felt, “This is what it’s about…right here…that was such a beautiful moment and so I felt like I had accomplished something with this book in that moment.”[/sdf_text_block][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-1″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Green-Quote-e1453672031762.png” top_margin=”15px” bottom_margin=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_blockquote id=”sdf-element-2″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” blockquote_alignment=”left” quote_icon=”yes” quote_icon_size=”fa-lg” blockquote_author=”Aileen Weintraub” cite_title=”” cite_link=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” class=””]The first draft I wrote for me. I got it all out. Subsequent drafts I wrote for my audience. That’s when you have to cut and cut and say, ‘Is this contributing to the arc of the story and the forward momentum?'[/sdf_blockquote][sdf_button id=”sdf-element-3″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”10px” bottom_margin=”” button_icon=”fa-hand-o-left” button_icon_position=”icon-left-side” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” button_layout=”left” style=”link” size=”btn-lg” link=”https://www.aileenweintraub.com/” target=”_blank” nofollow=”yes” class=””]Learn more[/sdf_button][/sdf_col][sdf_col id=”sdf-col-2″ width=”1/3″][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-0″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Aileen-Weintraub.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”20px” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-1″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/carolinequotes.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_blockquote id=”sdf-element-2″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”” blockquote_alignment=”left” quote_icon=”yes” quote_icon_size=”fa-lg” blockquote_author=”Caroline Kilbourn” cite_title=”” cite_link=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” class=””]There is probably no family that can truthfully put a sign out that says ‘There is no trouble here.'[/sdf_blockquote][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-3″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Knocked-Down.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”20px” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][/sdf_col][/sdf_hero]
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