At cocktail hour on a gorgeously sticky summer night in a Brooklyn brownstone, a group of friends has gathered in the high-ceilinged living room of bestselling memoirist Suleika Jaouad and her husband ...

I’ll never forget the first time I tried journaling about my abuse history. My hands shook as I wrote, scared to validate my story by putting it on paper. "Maybe it wasn’t that bad..." I started, a ...