{"id":145769,"date":"2025-09-11T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=145769"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:03:48","slug":"the-tell-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-tell-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tell by Amy Griffin\u2014Book Overview and Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can psychedelic therapy unlock buried memories of childhood trauma? According to venture capitalist Amy Griffin, the answer is a resounding yes. In her acclaimed 2025 memoir <em>The Tell<\/em>, Griffin details how MDMA-assisted therapy helped her recover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/remembering-repressed-memories\/\">repressed memories<\/a> of sexual abuse by a trusted teacher during middle school. Her story offers a compelling case study of memory recovery through psychedelic intervention, though it also enters contentious scientific territory where experts debate the reliability of drug-induced recollections and the very existence of repressed memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her memoir, which landed on Oprah&#8217;s Book Club list and earned her a spot on <em>Time Magazine&#8217;s<\/em> most influential people list, explores not only her memory recovery process but also her path to healing through disclosure, legal pursuit, relationship strengthening, and rebuilding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/self-trust\/\">self-trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-overview-of-the-tell\"><strong>Overview of <em>The Tell<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Can psychedelic therapy help you recover lost memories? Amy Griffin says it can, detailing how it helped her unlock repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. In the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/743950\/the-tell-oprahs-book-club-by-amy-griffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Tell<\/em><\/a>, Griffin explains how a therapy session assisted with the psychedelic drug MDMA brought this long-buried trauma to the surface, setting her on a path toward healing. She also explores the negative impacts of patriarchal Texan culture, the pitfalls of perfectionism, and the road to healing from abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin is a venture capitalist who founded <a href=\"https:\/\/g9.ventures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G9 Ventures<\/a>, the investment firm that helps get early-stage startups off the ground. Her firm has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amy-griffin-g9-gwyneth-paltrow-reese-withersoon-hello-sunshine-11659634797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported the growth<\/a> of several notable female-founded brands, including actress Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s beauty and wellness business <a href=\"https:\/\/goop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goop<\/a>, actress Reese Witherspoon\u2019s media company <a href=\"https:\/\/hello-sunshine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hello Sunshine<\/a>, and the dating app <a href=\"https:\/\/bumble.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bumble<\/a>. Griffin\u2019s memoir was met with critical acclaim when it was published in 2025, immediately landing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprah.com\/book\/oprahs-book-club-the-tell-by-amy-griffin?editors_pick_id=26790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oprah\u2019s Book Club<\/a> list. <em>The Tell <\/em>also landed Griffin on Time Magazine\u2019s list of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/100-most-influential-people-2025\/7273760\/amy-griffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the 100 most influential people of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our guide to <em>The Tell<\/em>, we explore Griffin\u2019s memoir in four parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Part 1: Becoming Amy Griffin <\/strong>explains how Griffin\u2019s growing up turned her into a powerhouse who had it all\u2014fitness, family, and a successful career. It also explores the dark side of Griffin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-path-to-success\/\">path to success<\/a>, which haunted her as an adult.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 2: Unraveling the Abuse <\/strong>details Griffin\u2019s experiences with psychedelic therapy\u2014the memories it uncovered and the impact remembering had on her.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 3: Griffin\u2019s Healing Journey <\/strong>describes the four steps Griffin took to process her trauma and reclaim her life\u2014telling her story, pursuing legal justice, strengthening her relationships, and developing self-trust.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 4: An Unanswered Question <\/strong>examines the mystery Griffin raises but can\u2019t resolve\u2014whether her abuser ever victimized anyone else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our commentary provides additional context about childhood sexual abuse and psychedelic therapy. It also explores the roots of perfectionism, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-grit-is-important\/\">importance of grit<\/a>, and advice for healing from abuse or supporting others\u2019 healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-part-1-becoming-amy-griffin\"><strong>Part 1: Becoming Amy Griffin<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin begins by describing the forces that turned her into a healthy, happy, successful adult. But she explains that these forces had a dark side, too: Despite attaining all these appearances of success, she felt haunted by something she couldn\u2019t name. In this section, we\u2019ll explore the positive aspects of her journey as well as her silent struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-griffin-became-a-powerhouse\"><strong>How Griffin Became a Powerhouse<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that from the outside\u2014and as far as she could remember\u2014her childhood seemed idyllic. She grew up in the small town of Amarillo, Texas, where her parents ran a convenience store empire. They had high expectations for her\u2014everyone in their community knew who she was, and she had to represent her family and their business well. So, she was motivated to excel at everything she did. Her parents supported this by modeling strength and a relentless work ethic, by encouraging her to be kind, and by praising her leadership skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Griffin says, <strong>she became an overachiever. <\/strong>She was a star student and popular among both her classmates and her teachers. She also excelled at athletics; she took up running around age 12 and participated in several sports, including volleyball. Her efforts didn\u2019t go unnoticed\u2014her teachers, coaches, and family praised her for her abilities, and she won a leadership award in the eighth grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin explains that drive to achieve continued to serve her well as a young adult. She received a full scholarship to the University of Virginia, where she played on the volleyball team and studied English. After college, she moved to New York City, where she worked at prestigious publication companies, became a marathon runner, and met her husband, John. They had four children, and she devoted herself entirely to becoming the best mother she could be. She raised her children as a stay-at-home mom for nearly a decade before starting an investment firm dedicated to empowering women in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-griffin-s-silent-struggles\"><strong>Griffin\u2019s Silent Struggles<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Griffin\u2019s drive to achieve helped her become successful, she explains that it also had a dark side\u2014perfectionism\u2014and that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/happiness-and-success\/\">success and happiness<\/a> were limited by patriarchal culture. Let\u2019s explore both of these struggles now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-struggles-with-perfectionism\">Struggles with Perfectionism<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that she <em>over<\/em>achieved because <strong>she felt she had to be perfect to earn others\u2019 love.<\/strong> The praise she received for her talents and accomplishments made her associate her self-worth with her achievements. Then, anytime she didn\u2019t receive praise, she took it hard. To illustrate, she writes about the moment when she learned she wouldn\u2019t be crowned homecoming queen\u2014she felt this proved there was something inherently wrong with her, despite her popularity and academic success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin\u2019s perfectionism led her to push herself too hard. She overworked at everything she did, including running, which caused her to fall sick and suffer serious injuries often. But, she says, she felt like she couldn\u2019t rest\u2014not only because she had to keep performing in order to earn others\u2019 approval, but also because rest was deeply uncomfortable for her. When she found herself having a quiet or relaxed moment, her underlying anxiety would flare up, compelling her to stay busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Griffin explains that her anxiety stemmed from a need to feel in control.<\/strong> It didn\u2019t just crop up when life slowed down; it also caught her by surprise when she was feeling vulnerable. For example, she once had a panic attack during a painful dental procedure because the dentist ignored her protests and made her continue to sit through it, which left her feeling powerless. Later, Griffin would learn that such reactions to vulnerable situations are telltale signs of childhood sexual abuse, which we\u2019ll explore in Part 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-struggles-with-patriarchy\">Struggles With Patriarchy<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Perfectionism wasn\u2019t the only thing plaguing Griffin\u2014<strong>she was also held back by patriarchy<\/strong>. She first became aware of this as a child. Southern culture, she explains, dictated rigid gender roles subordinating women, which she felt limited her potential. To illustrate, she describes how she ran for student council president in middle school and lost to a boy even though she was better suited for the role.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South\u2019s patriarchal norms also influenced the way Griffin thought about sex and relationships. She explains that she was taught to value and protect her sexual purity; her parents and church leaders represented virginity as something a man would take away from her one day. This taught her to think of her sexuality as a possession to be guarded rather than a matter of personal choice. At the same time, her culture emphasized the importance of being desirable as a woman: She needed a man to be attracted to her, and to choose her as his wife, in order to prove her value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, these norms made Griffin think of her sexual identity in terms of passivity and shame, rather than agency, self-expression, and joy. She explains that this led her to misinterpret her first adult sexual experiences. The first time she had sex, in college, she asked her partner to stop, but he continued anyway. The experience left her feeling upset and ashamed, but she didn\u2019t understand that it counted as rape. She continued to date and have sex with him, and after they broke up, she remained friendly with him for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-part-2-unraveling-the-abuse\"><strong>Part 2: Unraveling the Abuse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Griffin had achieved great success, her silent struggles left her feeling haunted. She knew she had a problem, but she didn\u2019t know what it was\u2014until psychedelic therapy helped her identify it. In this section, we\u2019ll explore how her memories of childhood sexual abuse surfaced, what those memories revealed, and the impact that remembering had on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-psychedelic-therapy\"><strong>Psychedelic Therapy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin explains that her upbringing discouraged drug use, but her husband opened her eyes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/benefits-of-psychedelics\/\">benefits of psychedelics<\/a>. Under the guidance of a trained facilitator, he\u2019d been using a pure, safe form of the drug MDMA (commonly known as its street-drug equivalent, ecstasy). It had helped him understand his past better and become more emotionally open. He asked Griffin to meet with his facilitator to learn more about his experiences and how psychedelic therapy works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this meeting, the facilitator explained that MDMA helps a patient access deeply buried thoughts, emotions, and memories and meet them with a sense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/compassion-for-yourself\/\">self-compassion<\/a>. This allows the patient to process those experiences without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/getting-overwhelmed\/\">feeling overwhelmed<\/a> in the moment. The facilitator also explained that when working with a patient, she would offer support if needed, but wouldn\u2019t direct or influence their experience. Instead, she\u2019d allow their experience to unfold naturally, and she\u2019d help them reflect on what they\u2019d learned once it was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin scheduled a session, hoping it would help her understand what was haunting her so she could move past it. It was at this first session that she remembered the sexual abuse she experienced in middle school at the hands of a trusted teacher\u2014Mr. Mason.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-griffin-s-memories\"><strong>Griffin\u2019s Memories<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin had clear memories of sexual abuse during her first and subsequent psychedelic therapy sessions. But, she explains, these memories came to her not only under the influence of MDMA, but also as she went about her daily life. She could remember the specific sexual acts Mason perpetrated, the conversations that unfolded during these instances of abuse, threats of violence he made to deter her from reporting the abuse, and details about the locations where they occurred and what she and her abuser were wearing. The fact that she could remember all of these details confirmed for Griffin that the memories were real; they weren\u2019t just hallucinations brought on by the MDMA she had taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin says that once these memories started cropping up, she decided to see a therapist who could help her process them (the facilitator who\u2019d guided her MDMA use wasn\u2019t a trained therapist). <strong>Her therapist characterized her memories as flashbacks<\/strong>\u2014vivid, involuntary recollections of traumatic events that had been stored in her mind but never fully processed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that her therapist also explained <strong>why she hadn\u2019t remembered the abuse before. <\/strong>Memory is a three-stage process; it involves <em>encoding<\/em>, <em>storage<\/em>, and <em>recall<\/em>. In the encoding stage, the brain takes in information and converts it for storage. The brain doesn\u2019t convert everything\u2014it only stores important information. This includes information about traumatic events, like someone\u2019s experiences of childhood sexual abuse, which tend to be stored vividly and with strong emotional associations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, even though these memories are vividly stored, they can remain inaccessible to conscious awareness for years. In such cases, a person may only recall these memories when something in the present, like an emotion, reminds them of the past\u2014and when the brain knows that it\u2019s safe to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explain why she hadn\u2019t recalled her memories before her MDMA session, Griffin explains that at the time, she met both of these criteria: Her mind recognized links to the past, and she felt safe. The anxiety she felt when starting the session mirrored the anxiety she felt when she was being abused. Additionally, her therapist noted, Griffin\u2019s daughters were around the same age she\u2019d been during the abuse; observing them every day likely reminded her of her own experiences as a preteen. Then, being in the company of someone she trusted to help her\u2014the facilitator\u2014made her feel safe, which allowed her brain to open its floodgates and release those memories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin says her therapist also told her <strong>why she should believe her memories were true. <\/strong>The MDMA may also have helped her feel safe, since it stimulates the release of oxytocin\u2014a brain chemical that promotes emotional openness. The therapist assured Griffin that the MDMA didn\u2019t make her hallucinate, explaining that MDMA doesn\u2019t produce hallucinations. Instead, it promotes self-awareness and compassion\u2014the qualities she needed in order to face her memories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Griffin maintains that it wasn\u2019t the MDMA <em>itself<\/em> that brought on her memories. MDMA takes about 30 minutes to kick in, but her first memory occurred only five minutes into the session. <strong>She believes her willingness to confront her memories, and safety she felt under the guidance of the facilitator, allowed them to surface.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-impact-of-remembering\"><strong>The Impact of Remembering<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that after she began to remember the abuse, it became the only thing she could think about. New memories revealed themselves often, and they were always devastating. <strong>She felt a mix of overwhelming emotions about the abuse<\/strong>, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anger that no one noticed the abuse or stopped it from happening<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fear that her children would be victimized<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compassion for her child self\u2019s suffering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fear that no one would believe her, since she\u2019d never told anyone and hadn\u2019t even been able to remember the abuse until she started psychedelic therapy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Processing her memories and emotions required a lot of time and energy. To help the processing along, Griffin\u2019s husband (to whom she revealed the abuse immediately after her first session) recommended that she start journaling. She explains that <strong>she kept detailed records of her memories and the events that followed her remembering<\/strong> (like the criminal investigation we\u2019ll explore in Part 3). This not only helped her make sense of her experiences but also provided her with a feeling of certainty\u2014a way to anchor herself when she doubted her own recollections, feared she was imagining things, or worried others wouldn\u2019t believe her. By documenting everything as it unfolded, she built tangible proof of her own story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because she was so preoccupied with her abuse, Griffin explains, <strong>she felt incapable of participating in normal, everyday activities.<\/strong> She couldn\u2019t imagine having a mundane conversation with someone about ordinary topics while carrying the weight of such devastating revelations\u2014and she was too exhausted to do so anyway. As a result, she withdrew from social events and daily responsibilities, and her husband supported her by taking on a larger share of childcare and household tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-part-3-griffin-s-healing-journey\"><strong>Part 3: Griffin\u2019s Healing Journey<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Being consumed by her memories left her feeling isolated and overwhelmed, and Griffin didn\u2019t want things to stay that way. She thought of herself as a survivor, not a victim, and was eager to move forward with her life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this section, we\u2019ll explore the four measures she took to heal and reclaim her sense of wholeness and agency: telling her story, pursuing legal justice, strengthening her relationships, and learning to trust herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-telling-her-story\"><strong>Telling Her Story<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step Griffin took toward healing was sharing her story with others.<strong> <\/strong>She explains that she started doing this as soon as she remembered the abuse. Initially, she only shared it with the facilitator, her therapist, and her husband. The facilitator and therapist cautioned her against sharing too widely or too quickly, but she felt compelled to tell others, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin explains that <strong>telling her story was the only way to overcome the sense of fear and shame her abuser had used to control her.<\/strong> Mason had threatened her with violence if she spoke up and told her no one would believe her if she did, and these warnings had embedded themselves so deeply in her mind that she hadn\u2019t been able to be honest with even <em>herself <\/em>about the abuse. Now she was ready to break her silence. So, she told her closest friends, who put her in contact with other victims of abuse she could relate to. She also told her childhood volleyball coach, who\u2019d been friendly with Mason. The coach expressed regret for not recognizing the abuse\u2014she felt she should have recognized it since she\u2019d been abused as a child, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These first \u201ctellings\u201d were good practice; the other steps Griffin took toward healing, which we\u2019ll describe next, required her to tell her story repeatedly. To pursue legal justice, she had to recount the abuse and how she\u2019d recovered memories of it to lawyers and police. Strengthening her relationships with her family also required sharing her experiences, and reconnecting with herself meant articulating the abuse so she could integrate it into the story of her life. Writing <em>The Tell <\/em>was the culmination of Griffin\u2019s long journey of disclosure\u2014she explains that she wrote the book to give voice to her experiences while helping others who have faced similar trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-pursuing-legal-justice\"><strong>Pursuing Legal Justice<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin explains that sharing her story was a good first step, but it didn\u2019t satisfy her need for justice. She felt she couldn\u2019t heal without holding Mason accountable for the harm he\u2019d inflicted on her, and she wanted to set a good example for her children, too\u2014she wanted them to know that once she recognized something was wrong, she did all she could to make things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Griffin\u2019s drive for justice led her to pursue legal action against Mason. <\/strong>She met with a New York lawyer who helped her get started. The lawyer\u2019s team launched an investigation into Mason\u2019s past; to gather evidence to support Griffin\u2019s case, they interviewed people who might have known about his behavior, witnessed signs of abuse, or been abused themselves. Some interviewees remembered Mason fondly, but others remembered him as a creep. They could provide examples of behavior that they thought inappropriate, but nothing they reported was clearly criminal or legally actionable. No one reported having been abused by Mason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin says her lawyer advised her to hire a criminal lawyer based in Texas. She told Griffin that filing a civil suit against Mason might backfire\u2014he could countersue for defamation\u2014and that someone with knowledge of Texas law would be better able to represent her in court. Griffin\u2019s father recommended a lawyer he knew, a defense attorney named Duke, who continued the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that Duke mishandled her case. She felt that he infantilized her and spoke condescendingly, that he made slow progress, and that he was frequently hard to get in contact with. However, she felt some hope when Duke connected her with a detective at the Amarillo District Attorney\u2019s office. The detective wanted to hear her story so he could investigate the case, and when they spoke, he told her he believed her. He said that her account of the abuse was convincing, and he hoped to interview Mason soon after they spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, Griffin\u2019s pursuit of legal justice ultimately was a dead end.<\/strong> She explains that a few days after interviewing her, the detective called to tell her the statute of limitations had run out on her case: Because too much time had elapsed since the abuse, Griffin couldn\u2019t press charges. She was heartbroken, but eventually discovered that legal justice wasn\u2019t necessary for healing\u2014strengthening her family relationships would prove more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-strengthening-relationships\"><strong>Strengthening Relationships<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Griffin had shared her story with a variety of people at this point, she hadn\u2019t yet told many of her family members. However, her pursuit of legal justice required her to talk to some of them about it. She had to tell her father about it so that he could recommend a lawyer, and telling her father required her to tell her mother and sister, too. Griffin says she was reluctant to share her story with them because she feared doing so would hurt them. It did, in fact, hurt them\u2014they took the news personally, blamed themselves for the abuse, and expressed strong emotions that Griffin felt responsible for managing. But they also believed her, which she found relieving, and offered to support her however they could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin also decided to tell her three oldest children about her experiences (but not her fourth child, who she felt was too young to understand or cope with such a distressing topic). She explains that her children had noticed something was going on with her; they sensed that she was anxious and distant, and they expressed that they struggled to connect with her. This motivated Griffin to tell them she\u2019d been abused\u2014by telling them, she could close the emotional gap that was separating them. Telling them about the abuse also opened the door to broader conversations about consent, trust, and safety, which she hoped would help protect her children from suffering the abuse she\u2019d endured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Although telling her family about the abuse was difficult, it strengthened her relationships. <\/strong>Griffin\u2019s therapist helped her understand why: Being abused taught her that she couldn\u2019t be vulnerable. To protect herself, she needed to pretend that she was always OK, which fed into her perfectionism\u2014she felt she had to appear flawless and in control, even when she was hurting inside. Opening up about the abuse allowed her to let go of that coping mechanism and embrace vulnerability. That vulnerability\u2014the freedom to be herself and to trust others to love her even if her life wasn\u2019t perfect\u2014helped her form deeper, more authentic connections with her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-developing-self-trust\"><strong>Developing Self-Trust<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin says the final step in her healing journey was developing self-trust. She explains that the abuse she endured taught her not<em> <\/em>to trust herself. To survive the abuse, she\u2019d had to remain polite and obedient, suppressing her discomfort and overriding her instincts. To overcome this, Griffin says, <strong>she had to learn to trust her body. <\/strong>She stopped pushing herself so hard, a pattern that, as we\u2019ve discussed, had made her more susceptible to illness and injury. She gave up running and learned to embrace rest, and she got better at setting boundaries\u2014for example, she stopped engaging with a man who\u2019d raped her in college but with whom she\u2019d since kept in contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Griffin writes that she also had to learn to trust her memory.<\/strong> The fact that her memories had only emerged after psychedelic therapy did make her question them to some extent; as each memory unfolded, she felt strongly that they reflected reality, but in the intervening moments, doubt sometimes crept in. She assuaged her doubts by reminding herself that the memories were vivid, consistent, and detailed, and that the emotions they stirred were real. She also revisited the school where Mason taught her. There, she noted that although the rooms where the abuse occurred had been remodeled, they felt eerily familiar, which affirmed that her memories were authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, <strong>Griffin learned to trust in her strengths.<\/strong> Mason had used her strengths against her\u2014he had praised her leadership skills, her kindness, and other positive traits to gain her trust, and he used this to manipulate her. To heal, Griffin needed to reclaim these strengths for herself. She continually reminded herself that these traits made her valuable, which was an effective antidote to the shame that being abused made her feel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-part-4-an-unanswered-question\"><strong>Part 4: An Unanswered Question<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin\u2019s healing left her in a happier, more grounded place, but <strong>one major question still loomed over her: Did Mason abuse anyone else?<\/strong> She hoped not, but she suspected he had, and she knew that finding other victims would prove that the abuse she remembered really happened. She reached out to several childhood classmates with the hope that they\u2019d reveal their own accounts of abuse, including a woman she calls Claudia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though they weren\u2019t close friends, Griffin had once loaned Claudia a dress for a dance. She wondered if she had done this because, on some level, she knew that Mason was also abusing Claudia. So, she met with Claudia to discuss her experiences and asked if she\u2019d been abused, too. But, Griffin explains, Claudia maintained that she\u2019d never been abused and said she was sorry she couldn\u2019t help Griffin more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after their meeting, Griffin received a postcard in the mail. The postcard implied that someone she had spoken to had also been affected by Mason\u2019s abuse but wasn\u2019t ready to come forward. Griffin assumed the postcard came from Claudia, but Claudia denied it. Griffin never found out who sent it\u2014but, she writes, <strong>it suggests that Mason did have other victims, just as she suspected.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-exercise-learn-to-trust-yourself-again\"><strong>Exercise: Learn to Trust Yourself Again<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin writes that part of her healing process was learning to trust her instincts after spending so many years suppressing her thoughts, feelings, and memories. 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