“So many of the things women feel they ‘should’ do can feel deeply personal when they’re actually messages we’ve been hearing for years,” Williams said. “Narrative therapy creates space to decide which of those stories still belong to us.”
Brooks said the real test of The Permission Project initiative is whether people will continue to engage with it after World Mental Health Day: through therapy sessions with BetterHelp, or simply by rewriting their own rules and living by them.
