This is What Trauma Does

This is What Trauma Does

by | Oct 14, 2020 | Trauma

We give up whole parts of ourselves to belong in our families. In turn, for those of us who dare to come home to ourselves, we risk losing our family and severing the ties that bind us. When I was twenty-one, I became the first member of my family to earn a...
On The Importance of Breaking Promises

On The Importance of Breaking Promises

by | Aug 24, 2020 | Anger, Marriage

I’ve been a promise keeper for most of my life, only breaking promises when left with no other choice – when a murmur in my heart began pounding so loud that it overruled me. There was the relationship that lacked kindness and mutuality – the friendship laced in...
Our Father’s Tears

Our Father’s Tears

by | Jun 12, 2020 | Parenting, Relationships

Here I sit, on the cusp of Father’s Day, feeling both with and without Father — while the earth has a fever and pirates run amuck. I remember my father crying. I’m not sure when or at what age, though I could venture a guess — I was (perhaps) six. It was over our...
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