Mind the Gap: Navigating and Maintaining Relationships After Transformative Healing

Healing doesn't just change how you feel - it changes who you are. It alters the way you love, connect, and show up in your relationships. Suddenly, the roles you once played no longer fit. Familiar dynamics begin to feel heavy, conversations leave you drained, and the people who once felt closest seem unable to meet you where you are. You haven't become cold. You've become coherent.

Mind the Gap is a compassionate, clear-eyed guide for navigating the space between your healing and the world around you. Written for anyone who has done the hard work of personal transformation but now finds themselves feeling disoriented in their relationships, this book explores what it means to maintain wholeness in the face of old expectations.

With warmth and steadiness, Aubrey Perin offers a framework for understanding the "gap" - the emotional and relational space that healing creates - not as failure or distance, but as a sacred container for your growth. Through deeply resonant reflections, practical insights, and gentle affirmations, Mind the Gap helps you:

• Recognize emotional flashbacks and survival instincts disguised as love or loyalty
• Set boundaries that protect your coherence without collapsing into blame
• Respond to guilt, obligation, and shame with clarity instead of compliance
• Love others without disappearing in the process
• Discern which relationships can evolve with you - and which must be released with grace

Whether you're distancing from unhealthy family patterns, rebuilding your sense of self after trauma, or learning to engage with others from a place of choice instead of survival, this book is your steady companion through the uncomfortable but necessary space between who you were and who you are becoming.

This isn't a book about cutting ties. It's about learning to hold your healing with integrity - even when the world hasn't yet caught up.