In therapy, we often rush to fill the silence because being truly seen in our stuckness feels like exposure. When I sit with a client, and we reach that place where the script runs out, we are entering the Gould Frequency. We are slowing the narrative until we can see the individual ripples in the water.

The level of attention paid to the minutiae of (a relatively non-gory) crime is like a tonic for the anxious mind...