A Compassionate Mess: A Therapist, Her Monsters, and a Journey to Self-Acceptance

When Melissa's boyfriend breaks up with her over Skype, she finds herself in Madrid with nowhere to live, her career as a therapist at risk, her life in ruins. She'd moved to Spain to become someone new. Instead, she's become someone lost.

What follows is an unraveling across continents during Melissa's early adulthood-panic attacks, anxiety, insomnia-with her Spanish therapist, Pili, by her side. An expat therapist herself, Melissa pours herself into helping others navigate their own anxiet...