You are not broken. You never were.

In YOU ARE NOT BROKEN, Melinda Zappone, LMHC, CCTP2, LFYP invites you to step off the endless cycle of self-improvement and into a deeper, more compassionate relationship with yourself. Through Narrative Healing—the first phase of her groundbreaking Toolbox Approach™—you’ll uncover the stories that have shaped you, not to fix them, but to finally see them clearly. The first phase of healing in this approach acts as both an invitation and a call to action. Her three phases of healing are each equipped with tools and this book is your guide to what it could be like to finally approach your own story like your most important job. This job is to understand yourself and through that process, healing begins.

With warmth, directness, and a refusal to sugarcoat the truth, Zappone offers tools that don’t just tell you how to heal—they create healing in the very act of reading. Whether you’ve struggled with therapy, self-help, or simply don’t know where to begin, this book provides a structured yet intuitive path to self-awareness, emotional integration, and personal responsibility.

Your story isn’t finished. It’s time to stop searching for someone else to guide you and start trusting the one person who truly can—you.

Melinda Zappone, LMHC, CCTP2, LFYP has dedicated her life to mental health and healing trauma. In her twenties, she broke into the mental health profession as a student research assistant, frustrated with how to make helping more than a science and confined to a therapist and patient relationship.As a trauma therapist, Melinda often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients—and for herself—she began a journey to develop a united process of healing unprocessed or partially emotional content, something she realized was akin to clogged experience only manifesting as mental health symptoms in a perfectly whole system.

Her concept of brokenness was born as the key symptom we all need to treat. Her Toolbox Approach was born. It equips people with the interdisciplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she’d learned with others—and soon You are Not Broken, Holding Space Substack and her ENYA (Everyone Needs You Always) podcast was born.