The Choice
future patients are very lucky indeed.” When I got back to my hotel, I jumped on the bed like a lit ...
CHAPTER 16 The Choice My joyous optimism, my sense of professional accomplishment, my feeling that I was re ...
own trauma. It wasn’t something to silence, suppress, avoid, negate. It was a well I could draw on, ...
ey wanted to tell me every detail of Emma’s behaviors that concerned them: the food she refused to eat, ...
handle being confronted or contradicted. In our private session, I would be impressed by her resourcef ...
stringy blond hair made her face look even thinner. She stood in the doorway of my office, ...
she told me was conĕdential—unless her life was in danger. And then I made a so, open-ended invitation. “Yo ...
questions had anything to do with food. It is so hard for someone with anorexia to see anything in ...
“I guess.” She walked to the board and pushed her thin hand out from her sleeve to take ...
awareness of her self-sabotage and of how far she had taken it. And it was an effort to help her answer the most ...
eir mother kicked me under the table. “Don’t say that,” she admonished me under her breath. “She’ll end ...
like the only one disciplining the kids. Interestingly, Emma’s mother said something similar, ...
She had become the present-day version of her picture of the twirling, dancing girl. e summer aer Emma’s junior yea ...
housed a year of horror within me. And I housed a vacant, empty place, the vast dark of t ...
holding on to? Am I willing to let it go? Agnes asked me now, “How do you know if there’s something you’r ...
life? Or do you think I’m having this dream because it’s time to ĕnally put the fantasy of becoming a d ...
it has to be something you’ve never said out loud.” She smiled faintly, nervously. “Are you going to make ...
“I thought it would be so dark in here,” she said. “But there’s so much light.” A few mon ...
discovered? Within my own darkness, had I found the light? * * * Emma helped me question how I ...
opportunities for revelation and change. “I wonder if you can help me,” I ĕnally said. is is an approach ...
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