The Joyous Recovery: A New Approach to Emotional Healing and Wellness

by Lundy Bancroft

We “come into the world alone”? What statement could be more preposterous? We come into the world literally inside of the body of another human being—our mother—beginning as an actual part of her. We then go through a very gradual process of separating into an individual that can survive outside of our mother’s body. And even after we’re born, years go by before we are capable of surviving without almost constant assistance from other human beings. How could we possibly come into the world less alone than we do?

Persistent suffering is not etched into the nature of being.