‘The Tell’ author tells a shocking journey with oppressed memories (exclusive)

Amy Griffin couldn’t slower for a long time. The high-performance investor and the native West Texas-Born helped to strengthen brands such as Spanx, Goop, Bumble and Hello Sunshine, while they raised four children with their husband in New York.

She pursued perfection how many women felt under pressure until her body gave her enough signs – “indications”, as she puts it – that she hid anything. “Why am I running away?” She remembers that she asked herself. “Why can’t I enjoy the life I built that I built up in a way that I want?”

Griffin, 48, finally got her answers, which she shares in your inspiring – and sometimes shaking – new memoirs The story (Now from the Dial Press), which was announced as a selection for the Oprah’s book club in March 2025.

When the clever of the buried trauma driven to the foreground of her mind, Griffin decided to finally put her directly and to give a psychedelic-assisted therapy. John, her husband since 2003, to whom she had dedicated her book, had introduced the MDMA path.

“How did I know that I had to do that? Even now I don’t really understand it” The story. “I only knew that I had built walls and I didn’t know how to tear it down. I knew I was tired of running.”

After taking the pill (under the supervision of a trustworthy therapist), the memories of the sexual attacks were reappeared by a middle school teacher. After that there was no past.

“What happened to me was so terrible that I put it in the background of my brain and never say to myself,” says Griffin to the people. “What was the most powerful for me is the decision to go forward and talk about it.”

She started writing for herself and processing her journey through journal entries. “I wrote about the bottom of the bathroom. I wrote in my closet. Whenever I couldn’t express emotion, I sat down and I wrote,” she says. “I wrote because I knew it would save my life. And it did.”

This part was “wild cathartic,” she says. But then she recognized the “gift” to share a game for her personal process with other survivors. She wants readers to know that it is not intended to be a one-size fits all travel guide. Even the psychedelically supported therapy component makes sure that they do not fit readers as the best for them.

“For me it was one of the most profound experiences of my life, but I would also like to say that I had no idea how I had to pick up the parts of my life at the other end,” says Griffin. “Sometimes things are so difficult in life, there is a reason why they don’t want to remember them.”

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In addition to the MDMA meetings, Griffin quotes a combination of tools that help her to understand and understand her earlier trauma and mental health: deep conversations with loved ones and therapy with a therapist, knocking, dark chocolate, hot baths, long walks, a lot with myself, a lot of music in my ears – all of these things. ”

Today, almost two years after she completed the letter The storyGriffin is grateful that he remembered her past and looked at her. “Everything is more lively, honest,” says the author. “I would hope that my children say that I am a different kind of parents in many ways.”

Why was she running for so long? She admits that it was simply “too painful and too scary to really sit in truth and honesty”, so her subconscious had taken over.

But when she learned: “Secrets, we believe that they protect us but not,” she says. “The secrets are actually what gets us stuck.” She hopes that others will also find the courage in similar situations to share their stories with trustworthy confidants.

“It’s not just about what happened to me,” she says of the healing process. “It was more about telling.”

The story is now available where books are sold.

If you or someone you know sexually attacked, please contact the national hotline for sexual attacks under number 1-800-656-shop (4673) or go to Raininn.org.