Helping Heal: The Science and Spirit that Transforms Trauma

The Change Conversation

I’m coming up on a year since starting Helping Heal: The Science and Spirit That Transforms Trauma, and I keep noticing the same paradox. The more I try to get it exactly right, the more I rewrite, refine, and rework ideas which helps things become more clear in my head. Part of me knows I will eventually have to let it go and allow it to exist imperfectly. Another part of me recognizes that the obsession with clarity isn’t wasted time. Writing forces me into deeper understanding. It feels less like creating something new and more like discovering something that was already there, now I’m just trying to articulate it.

There’s an odd third-person quality to the process. I often feel like an ordinary person watching someone else do the writing or teaching, someone much more articulate. That tension between humility and authority has become one of the themes of the book itself. Language changes when it becomes precise enough to meet the brain where it already lives. I’m not creating anything new. I’m trying to translate complex concepts into something I think our brains will recognize as familiar and necessary.

–Casey Jackson, Founder & CEO

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