A second draft is not a rejection of the first.
It is a deeper reading.

In writing, the first draft reveals what is there.
The second draft reveals what was hidden.

There is a common hope that healing will move in a straight line.

Insight, action, resolution.

But in lived experience, and in therapy, change rarely follows a clean arc.

Change is often imagined as a breakthrough moment; a revelation, a decisive shift, a clean before and after.

More often, it begins somewhere quieter.