The Art of Undoing

Whispers Between Chapters – with Nimra

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⚠️ Trigger Warning

This episode discusses trauma, emotional neglect, loneliness, burnout, and healing.

Nothing graphic — but tender, raw, and honest.

Please take care of yourself while listening.

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Healing doesn’t begin with strength — it begins with exhaustion.

With the mask slipping the moment you’re finally alone.

With the soft ache you’ve carried so long it feels like part of your bones.

In this heart-center of the season, we explore the quiet, hidden beginnings of healing — the subtle moments when the body finally whispers, “I can’t keep carrying all of this.”

This episode walks gently through:

• ​the quiet books that save us in small, steady ways
• ​the “Atlas children” who carried too much, too young
• ​invisible wounds that never scar, but shape everything
• ​wintering, stillness, and the seasons of becoming
• ​how safety feels foreign after surviving cruelty
• ​why softness can be terrifying when you’ve only known survival
• ​how stories help us name what we’ve buried

If you’ve been tired, tender, unraveling, or quietly trying again…

this is for you.

Welcome to Episode Six: The Art of Undoing.

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📚 Books Mentioned in This Episode

🌄 Movement, Grief & Survival

• ​Wild — Cheryl Strayed
• ​A Million Little Pieces — James Frey
• ​The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

🌤 Quiet Healing & Small Rituals

• ​Days at the Morisaki Bookshop — Satoshi Yagisawa
• ​The House in the Cerulean Sea — T.J. Klune

🌸 Gentle Love & Slow Trust

• ​My Happy Marriage — Akumi Agitogi

🌧 Invisible Wounds & Internal Healing

• ​Reasons to Stay Alive — Matt Haig
• ​On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong

🌿 Seasons, Rest & Renewal

• ​Wintering — Katherine May

🌻 Connection & Softening

• ​Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman

✦ Original Writing

Excerpts from Where Silence Lingers — by Nimra (unpublished manuscript)

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🎵 Music Credits (Royalty-Free & Properly Attributed)

1. ​Emotional Piano — Tunetank

Music by Tunetank, via Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/music/beautiful-emotional-piano-347304/

1. ​First Snow — Batchbug

Music by Batchbug, via Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/music/beautiful-relaxing-music-first-snow-189277/

1. ​At Rest — Kevin MacLeod

Music: At Rest by Kevin MacLeod

Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0

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Source: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100748

1. ​Reverie — Scott Buckley

Music: Reverie by Scott Buckley

www.scottbuckley.com.au

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