The Tell: A Memoir

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For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from somethinga secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. Youre here, but youre not here, her daughter said to her one night. Where are you, Mom So began Amys quest to solve a mystery trapped in the deep recesses of her own memorya journey that would take her into the burgeoning field of psychedelic therapy, to the limits of the judicial system, and ultimately, home to the Texas panhandle, where her story began.

In her search for the truth, to understand and begin to recover from buried childhood trauma, Griffin interrogates the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so many women, asking, when, in our path from girlhood to womanhood, did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation What kind of freedom is possible if we accept the whole story and embrace who we really are With hope, heart, and relentless honesty, she points a way forward for all of us, revealing the power of radical truth-telling to deepen our connectionswith others and ourselves.

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The Tell is a beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to face the truth of ones past, and the beneficial role that a combination of skillful therapy and psychedelics can play in putting ones life in order.Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling authorof The Body Keeps the Score

Transformative and illuminating . . . Through every agonizing revelation, Amy Griffin refuses to pave over her pain, opting instead to embrace the entirety of it. This is a powerful story of what can happen when self-compassion replaces fear as the governing force of ones life.Chanel Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Know My Name

The Tell is the most powerful memoir Ive read in years. Its the rare story that will liberate you from shame, empower you to stop cycles of abuse, and make it safer for you to tell the truth. It left me filled with hope.Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again