We Have All Been Through a Lot: Use of Vulnerability and Self as a Healing Bridge

Roston focuses on the use of vulnerability and self as a healing bridge during hardship. Over the past year, her husband Dan had pulled through a serious episode of depression that included thoughts of suicide. There had been appointments after which she feared that Dan would not live to meet with her again. She had been relieved in recent appointments to hear Dan talk about how he had replaced some of the motorcycle parts with original parts so that in the future--it was reassuring that he was planning for the future--he could restore his father's motorcycle to its original form. For a time after he died, she did not let go. Sometimes self-disclosure feels right. At that moment, she felt that sharing something about her own experience would deepen their human connection.