Tag: relational trauma
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Why My Memoir Has Mermaids: A Healing Told Slant
ft. Disclaimer A few years ago, I swapped New Year’s resolutions for Word-of-the-Year intentions. Thirty-five years of failed resolutions had taught me that goal-setting was more obstacle than path forward (and thank goodness for late-diagnosed ADHD, am I right?). At the start of 2023, I was barely three weeks public in my recovery and gearing…
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THE YEAR OF SILENCE
Around the time I entered middle school, my mother and her mother spent a year not speaking. Plenty of families experience these types of estrangements, which can make the holidays tense or even a time of grieving. What made my mother’s estrangement from her own mom odd was not the length itself but how long…