A teenage girl scrubbing a restaurant floor long after closing.
A supervisor who didn’t care she’d miss the last bus.
A payphone near midnight, when she was summoned over by two cops who thought it was funny.
And a cement floor she slept on outside that night.
Dr. Amy Gunter writes memoir the way it should be written: without flinching, without sentimentality, and without letting the reader look away.
In On Hands and Knees, her latest essay on Mind and Meaning: Beyond Survival, she revisits survival, humiliation, and resilience with unflinching honesty. Read it, and you won’t forget it.
Dr. Amy Gunter has lived what she teaches. A former homeless teenager turned doctoral-level educator and clinician, she creates tools, workshops, and resources for people ready to go beyond survival. Street-tested. Clinically informed. Find her at Mind and Meaning: Beyond Survival on Substack, on Medium, or at gunter-consulting.com.
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