Processing

There is a page near the end of the Processing module of Brave Enough to Heal that I have watched change people. Not in a dramatic, lightning-bolt way, but in the quiet, irreversible way that real healing tends to happen. It's called "A Letter to Your Younger Self," and almost every person who sits with it tells me some version of the same thing afterward: I didn't know I needed that. I want to tell you why this exercise is so powerful, and why, if you've been putting it off,

If you've ever tried to tell your story and found yourself saying "I can't remember it clearly" or "it comes in pieces" or "I'm not even sure if what I remember is real" — I want you to hear this first: that is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a sign that your brain did exactly what it was designed to do.