Share the first step you took to heal emotional pain

Prompt 19 of The Prompted Memoir

For prompt 31, share the first step you took to heal emotional pain.

Healing is not linear; it is a road made up of winding trails, but every part of that road teaches us about our healing process. Cheryl Strayed says it well, “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emo…