“Our capacity to make sense of early life experiences that may not have made sense at the time is a powerful source of healing. While we cannot change the past, we can transform our lives from unresolved to resolved trauma through healing relationships accompanied by deep reflection on how the past has impacted us and what we can do, now, to create new ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving. The powerful set of exercises in this guided journal offers a way to make sense of your past and deepen how to identify and shift adaptations to the challenging, adverse experiences you may have had in your life. Research suggests that this making-sense process is part of what can empower us to ‘earn’ security in our attachment and free ourselves to live the life we’ve only dreamed might be possible.”—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Personality and Wholeness in Therapy, The Developing Mind, Mindsight, Parenting from the Inside Out, and Aware
