FMIB was created with this thought in mind—to help when you’re dealing with emotional scars that have left you feeling unable to function in everyday life.
It’s the paralyzing fear with an overlay of unbearable sadness that keeps you from enjoying even the smallest part of your life and leaves you asking yourself questions such as, “Why am I not enough? Why don’t things work out for me? What’s the point in trying?
There are two extremes of the FMIB spectrum. While the rest of the world seems to gravitate somewhere toward the middle, you might find yourself running from one bout of excitement to another, with no stops in between, to avoid spending time by yourself, or you might find that spending time by yourself is all you want because the thoughts of your past have left you feeling unworthy to be in the presence of others. Both are the result of emotional scars that damage. Both are the result of feeling broken.
Where I Am is a collection of stories divided into the following seven stages:
Barely There
Pieces That Can Be Salvaged
Putting It Back Together
Jumping In with Both Feet
A Safe Place to Land
Finding Your Footing
Moving Forward
These stages follow the progress of Jess as she develops coping skills to help manage her feelings of brokenness during sessions with her therapist. Although Jess’s story is fiction, it is based on real-life situations that we hope you will find relatable.