Snapshot · The Hidden Third
The core therapeutic work Nikki describes was unlearning the belief that she was inherently bad and at fault for everything — a message installed by her family's response to her childhood abuse.
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The therapeutic breakthroughs Nikki describes are specific: not vague notions of healing but identifiable 'clicks' — moments when a belief she had held for decades visibly cracked. The core belief was one her family installed at age 10: you are inherently bad, everything is your fault, your truth will destroy people. Her therapist's job was to rewire those messages, and the process was neither linear nor gentle. But the clicks came. Publishing Breaking Good brought its own version of the same terror — a dark night of 'what did I do?' — followed by the same kind of breakthrough. On the other side is what Nikki calls radical acceptance: the freedom of owning her story completely, needing no one's approval, standing in Montclair and having people text her support she didn't know was coming. 'It's my story,' she says. 'Good, bad, and the ugly.' The carousel of pain, as she calls it, only ends when you stop running.
The work of therapy, for Nikki, was dismantling the belief her family installed at age 10: that she was inherently bad, responsible for everything, and deserving of nothing. The clicks — moments of rewiring — are what she put in Part 4 of her book.
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