Place Can Help Restore Your Sense of Self

Yesterday I went for a walk around Promontory Point for the first time since my surgery, and I realized: a place can help restore our sense of self. Three months after the surgery, I was taking this walk that I have taken so many times before, and:

I felt that I was reclaiming a part of myself.

Making the round of this peninsula that struts out into Lake Michigan allowed me to slip into my old skin, to feel like myself again, even if it was a stretch for me to walk for 20 minutes. It let me...