The scariest stories aren’t told around the fire—they’re the ones we whisper to ourselves.

‘I’m not enough.’ ‘No one really likes me.’ ‘Something’s wrong with me.’

In therapy, we learn to tell new stories, ones rooted in safety, truth, and compassion.

Just as my ankles had quietly carried old injuries, so do many of us carry unacknowledged emotional injuries that quietly affect the rest of us. Sometimes what hurts right now isn’t the whole story.