Everything into the light.

Rebecca’s photographs back on the walls in plain view, Hannah’s feelings spoken out loud instead of swallowed, the truth told at a microphone instead of whispered through a crack in a door.

A child who has been taught that her real self must be hidden is healed, I have come to believe, mostly by being shown, over and over, that she is allowed to be fully visible, and safe while visible.

That is the promise I made her, and it is the one I have worked hardest to keep.