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Thinking and writing, and writing and thinking, are defining ways of doing phenomenology. Being patient is an asset. You cannot make thinking come on demand; those ‘aha’ moments in understanding what the research text is saying will come through being immersed in, and staying engaged with, the data. Understanding the meaning of the phenomenon of interest is the phenomenologist’s task. In this chapter, I focus on interpretive phenomenology, sometimes called hermeneutic or Heideggerian phenomenology, because it goes beyond rich descriptions of things, toward understanding. This distinction is important when exploring how a phenomenon appears, both as it is experienced by people and as it is interpreted by them. The seemingly complex language can be off-putting at first, but journey with me through this chapter and you will be rewarded by coming to see what makes interpretive phenomenology …