Learning To Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

It felt as though every nerve in my body was popping.

Imagine large strong hands slowly applying pressure while breaking a family-size package of uncooked, dry spaghetti.

I was the spaghetti.

Breaking down one piece at a time.

This is how Juanita Rasmus begins the wise, frank, and witty account of what she later called "The Crash" and what her counselor labeled "a major depressive episode."