Not Broken

For most of her life, Agata Turney believed something was wrong with her. From childhood, she experienced frightening moments of freezing, detachment, and unreality. She was left carrying confusion and shame into adulthood without truly understanding why. Even after becoming an accredited EMDR therapist, the questions remained.

Not Broken is the honest and deeply personal story of how one woman gradually came to understand her own nervous system through therapy, neuroscience, and self-discovery. Rather than offering quick fixes or easy answers, Agata gently explores the protective responses that shaped her life and the freedom that came from seeing them differently.

Written with both compassion and professional insight, this memoir offers hope to anyone who has ever questioned themselves, struggled with anxiety, depersonalisation, derealisation, or unexplained freeze responses.

It is an invitation to replace shame with understanding, and to discover that healing often begins not by fixing ourselves, but by understanding ourselves.