Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
Briar is thirty-two, and she has organised her entire life around a part of her face. Not a scar, not an injury, not anything a stranger would notice or a photograph would show, but something she sees with absolute clarity every time she looks, and which she has spent nineteen years trying to hide, correct, and stop thinking about. On a bad day she will check her reflection dozens of times, each check intended to reassure her and each one leaving her worse. She has left social occasions early, declined invitations, avoided photographs, and taken a job below her ability because it involved less contact with people. She has asked her partner the same question so many times that he has stopped being able to answer it in a way that helps either of them..
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
