For me, the ending of the story was actually the beginning of a different level of healing. Telling the story was like taking off the first few layers of the onion...and then after the story we worked (and are still working) a lot on how the "story" affected me, and how it made me who I am, both good and bad. There was (and is) a lot of work on accepting myself and accepting my history. A lot of work on discovering who I am, and who i want to be.

We are wonderfully complex