It behaves more like a time-release capsule: Change is delivered gradually, unevenly, and sometimes outside immediate awareness. A person devastated by a "small" setback is not being dramatic; the older sums are still on the page. Healing Is Not LinearWe picture recovery as a straight line pointing upward, each day a little better than the last. And count the small victories—the walk taken anyway, the hard conversation survived—because in healing's strange mathematics, small numbers interact. A time-release capsule deserves time; the wrong prescription deserves a new conversation.