Jennifer Grey is best known for her iconic portrayal of Baby in the classic film *Dirty Dancing*, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She also starred in the acclaimed series *Red Oaks* and won season eleven of *Dancing with the Stars*. At 62, she authored *Out of the Corner*, a memoir described as a powerful coming-of-age story about personal evolution.

Linda I. Meyers is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst based in New York City and Princeton, NJ, who trained at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She has published in professional journals and academic books. *The Tell* is her first published memoir, with two chapters appearing in literary journals in 2016, including "The Flowers," a top-five finalist in the Alligator Juniper contest.

Matthew Perry was an American-Canadian actor and author. On November 1, 2022, he published *Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing*, a memoir released by Macmillan Publishers (Headline in the UK) with a foreword by Lisa Kudrow, in which he details his struggles with alcoholism and painkiller dependency. Perry passed away on October 28, 2023, a year after the memoir's release.

Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator.

Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Kristin Neff, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a pioneer in self-compassion research, having conducted the first empirical studies in the field. She is the author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (William Morrow, 2011) and co-founded the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC).