Sep 23, 2022How Our Generational Parenting Practices Were InterruptedI didn’t understand with my first child how much historic trauma had damaged my ability to be touched and express love with my kids. I ...
Jul 10, 2022It’s hard to be a mom when the word MOTHER somewhere in your psyche terrifies youMy childhood was filled with intense emotional and physical abuse. My mother was a single mom in the 80’s. My mother was mentally ill, ...
Jul 10, 2022My mother is a grandmother now."My mother is a grandmother now she says to me let’s catch up so I put my book down take a deep breath say sure and she is already...
Dec 13, 2020I write this not knowing what the future holdsTrigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to miscarriage. Pure exhaustion, beyond any flu; vulnerability that can’t be...
Dec 13, 2020MOMMM! You are beautiful!I gained a lot of weight during my late thirties pregnancies. I nursed two babies for a combination of 51 months. Both left my body with...
Dec 13, 2020They don’t tell you so much. They can’t."They don’t tell you so much. They can’t. No one can tell you what it will be like to be ten days overdue, lost in a hazy world of...
Dec 13, 2020They had to sedate herTrigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to suicide. I work in the deli at Hannaford. I am in the chicken room...