Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings... Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self-esteem… But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice… If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.

Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse