“Unraveling Secrets of the Heart: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s Journey in ‘Lost Found Kept’ Reveals the Power of Redemption”
DDK: I’ve always been good in a crisis. I was in shock for the first couple of weeks and then had a full-blown acute stress reaction from dealing with it. Part of how I’ve always processed what’s been overwhelming has been journaling (I’m up to 72 notebooks that I’ve been keeping since I was 17). I’d come home after each fourteen-hour day and dump my reactions, feelings, details about what I’d seen or had been said in my notebook without judgement or commentary. I had to put it someplace and I knew from my work with trauma as a psychologist that I wasn’t processing any of this in the usual way. It was so overwhelming I was afraid I wouldn’t remember important parts of it. Some of that material is in the book.
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