Katriona O'Sullivan

When I studied psychology, one of the most important things that I learned in psychology is families that sit around the dinner table together have better outcomes.

We learn all these mad facts, right?

So in my home, I always insisted that we sit around the table because I thought, well, that's what Fikra and Shifra and all the good people do.

So we sat around the table eating dinner every day.

But I had this band and I couldn't even do that.

My beautiful son once said to me, ma'am, are you going to be okay?

And that pushed me to go to therapy.

And I talk about this in the book.

So I was like, I cannot keep chasing.

There's no answer in being smaller.

So I went to therapy.

It's exhausting and you never get there.

And I went to therapy and it was the first time I was actually honest, Brendan.

And I stopped searching for the answer, the destination.

She asked me to stop and I did.

I did the best I could.

And so I'm in this therapy and I'm healing and I start getting the sense of the little girl I was.

She gives me this doll that represents myself that sits next to my bed.

And I'm like, I want to be that kid again.

I want to feel my body's free again.