How Revisiting the Past Can Lead to Healing and Purpose

Vintage pocket watch resting on a handwritten notebook page

In My Road to Chaplaincy, Vivian A. Spoelman reminds readers that healing often begins by courageously looking backward. The memoir opens with a simple act—sorting through old books and journals but quickly becomes a powerful journey into memory, pain, and self-understanding. Revisiting childhood experiences is rarely comfortable. Spoelman describes how reading her twelve-year-old journal resurfaced […]