The Choice

her degree and been accepted to a master’s program in comparative literature. She thanked me fo ...

CHAPTER 21 The Girl Without Hands e second step in the dance of freedom is learning how to take risks that ...

what’s actually real instead of a reality created by your fear. Finally, he agreed to the assignment. And t ...

master was incredibly aggressive, seeking out every pledge’s weak spots and pushing hard on them. He called on ...

and still feel free inside? You’ve always told me it’s not what’s happening outside that mat ...

swallowed by violent urges, he didn’t want to fall into the pledge master’s trap of trying to ...

supported, and happy that he did not have to give up his dream. But I believe it would have been a t ...

Because she had been referred to me by another psychologist—a dear friend of mine, the same pers ...

In her ĕrst sessions with my colleague, Beatrice agreed to get up every morning, take a sho ...

to take me mentally into her father’s study, where the molestations had occurred. is is an extrem ...

depression, stress, and fear that had imprisoned her in her bed. But she hadn’t yet allowed her ...

“Yes.” “Now I want you to yell at him.” “Yell how?” “I want you to tell him how angry you are.” “I don ...

sessions with some rage release. She’d mentally tie someone up in a chair—usually one of her ...

“What if blaming yourself is just a way of maintaining the fantasy that the world is in you ...

acknowledged that she wanted to feel safe, that she wanted to be able to protect herself. She had learned ...

throw him against the wall today!” she said. “I pinned him. I picked him up. I threw him ...

CHAPTER 22 Somehow the Waters Part Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time. Healing is possible whe ...

his neck. On his desk she found a note: It’s not you, it’s me. Sorry to disappoint you. ...

control other people, and we can’t control the past. At some point during their ĕrst year of loss, Renée ...

Greg cried as he recounted this. “I’m losing you too,” he said to his wife. Renée’s face darkened, he ...