letter to my partner boundaries, family life, relationships, children, parenting, generational trauma

I wrote a letter to my (male) partner. We are going through a rough patch, after years of rough patches. #boundaries, #family_life, #relationships, #children, #parenting, #generational_trauma

Table covered with pages of manuscript

Table need with pages ready to organize

Bowl of soup over manuscript spread across table

I finally printed out the latest version of my #novel on #generational_trauma

We also watched her try to choke out my grandmother. That woman was a miserable ghoul, and was also violent with me once, so it's hard not to feel like she deserved it. But you can't be doing that. #family_bliss #generational_trauma #the_cycle

the moral injury of motherhood chapter from my book "Closed Doors"

This is a “shitty first draft” as Anne Lamott told us to write, to get out the first draft without the naysaying voice telling us everything that is wrong with it. It is from the end of my book “Closed Doors” about #generational_trauma and #motherhood and the #moral_injury that we all endure.