Chapter 24

Summary

• Yara feels hopeful that her counseling sessions might help her feel better, encouraged by Silas's nonjudgmental attitude.
• During her counseling session with William, she starts with mundane topics but soon expresses a desire to genuinely talk about deeper issues.
• William asks about her family relations, prompting Yara to admit she doesn't get along with her father and struggles with old family wounds.
• She resists discussing her mother and is reluctant to talk to her parents about her feelings, finding it too complicated and painful.
• Yara acknowledges her emotions are disorganized, possibly due to childhood trauma, but fears that discussing them will only bring back pain.
• William suggests using journaling as a way to process emotions, offering Yara a notebook to express thoughts she finds overwhelming to say out loud.
• He also proposes the idea of writing a letter to her parents that she'll never send as a form of expressing and confronting her emotions.
• Yara leaves the session contemplating William's advice and the difference between seeking freedom from her past versus wanting relief from ongoing pain.