Helder said the goal of therapy was to make a container to hold all the disparate selves. I was going to need a big container. One that could hold hordes.

“When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that H…”

“I couldn’t bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare…”

“Don’t get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder’s contai…”

“How, I asked, could I have gone my whole life not knowing about my mother? How …”