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Dr. Ramesh pointed out the window, toward the actual Woodstock. "There's a trail behind the Outlet Shoppes. When you feel adrift this week, I want you to walk it. Don't solve anything. Just count the number of different leaves you see. That’s your homework."

Nora blinked. "It's… loud."

Driving home, the rain had softened to a drizzle. She didn't turn on the radio. She thought about leaves. She thought about her father's hands—calloused from working on his old truck. And for the first time, the grief didn't feel like drowning. thriveworks counseling & psychiatry woodstock

For the first time in six months, Nora cried. Not the polite, single-tear kind of cry, but the ugly, heaving, can’t-breathe kind. Dr. Ramesh didn't hand her a tissue immediately. He let her have the moment.

She’d driven past it a hundred times. Once, she’d even gone inside. That was three months ago, for the intake. She’d sat in the crisp, navy-blue waiting area, signed a tablet, and felt a flicker of hope. Then she’d canceled the next five appointments. When you feel adrift this week, I want you to walk it

Her husband, Mark, didn't understand. "Just go talk to someone," he'd say, as if her anxiety were a leaky faucet he was tired of hearing drip.

Nora almost laughed. Leaves? She had come here for psychiatry, for brain chemistry, for a diagnosis. She’d expected a prescription pad. Instead, she got leaves. That’s your homework

The rain over Woodstock, Georgia, wasn’t the gentle kind. It was the type that bounced off the pavement of Towne Lake Parkway in furious, silver needles. Nora sat in her car, gripping the steering wheel, watching the raindrops race each other down the windshield. In her rearview mirror, she could see the sign: