THE NARRATIVE ARC

Not Asking for Help Was My Strength Until It Became My Worst Liability

Those things about ourselves to which we are most attached can hurt us over time

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
The Narrative Arc
Published in
6 min readApr 11, 2024

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A blue seascape with a solitary girl in the dis
Photo by Richard Stovall on Unsplash

My own two feet

For the first half of my life, I believed that “Help” was a four-letter word.

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
The Narrative Arc

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.