Emma's book took a year to write.
It was harder than any painting she'd ever created because it required her to use words. To be explicit about her complicity instead of letting images speak.
She titled it "The Weight We Carry: A Woman's Reckoning with Harm and Healing."
The book was organized around moments. Moments where she'd hurt people. Moments where she'd been complicit in her own harm. Moments where she'd made choices that had consequences.
She wrote about the money Tyler had stolen and how she'd enabled his addiction by not confronting him sooner. She wrote about the ways she'd manipulated Damien emotionally. She wrote about how she'd used her victimhood as a weapon against people who tried to help her.
It was brutal self-examination.
Her editor told her some sections were to
