WHAT COMES AFTER "WRONG"?
Remaking life in the aftermath of wrong,
with one of today’s leading voices
in moral trauma and moral resilience.
New Book by Michele DeMarco, PhD
WRITING THE WRONGS: A Guided Journal for Healing Moral Injury
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"This is no mere journal—it’s an embodied journey of reckoning and reconnection, making us feel held in our darkest moments... Weaving cutting-edge neuroscience with ancient wisdom, Writing the Wrongs is medicine for our times." — Albert Wong, PhD, author of The Healing Trauma Workbook
Are you haunted by the bitterness of betrayal, a crisis of conscience, or a "values violation" when life experiences haven't aligned with your core beliefs and principles? Do you find yourself struggling to reconcile the impossible, unimaginable, or unbearable with deep, lasting emotional or spiritual pain as you try to navigate the aftermath? If so, you may be suffering from moral injury.
Writing the Wrongs introduces a breakthrough, evidence-based writing program for healing moral injury to help you transform moral pain into peace, purpose, and possibility. (Part of New Harbinger’s esteemed "Journals for Change Series.")
Dr. Michele DeMarco
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.

I’m Michele — an award-winning writer, therapist, clinical ethicist, and academic researcher working at the leading edge of one of the most important, but little-known areas of trauma and resilience today. It’s called moral injury and its cousin moral distress (the field, generally, is also referred to as moral trauma). And it’s different than depression, anxiety, feelings of burnout, grief, or defeat, even posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Moral trauma happens when your core moral foundations are violated in high-stake situations, which recasts the way you see yourself, others, and the world, and can cause changes in behavior that signal a loss of trust, connection, self-worth, and meaning. These painful experiences are not a “disorder” of the mind, but rather a weight upon the heart and soul, which is why they are commonly called “soul wounds” — because they cut to our core or essence, to the very things that define us.
Moral trauma can feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world. While these painful and disorienting fundamental human struggles have plagued people for millennia, finally, we know what to call them, how to identify them, and increasingly, how to help people heal and transform from them.
If you haven’t heard of moral injury or moral distress, I invite you to learn more — because there is a good chance either you or someone you know has felt its profound effects.









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