Your Own Mother
Writings on motherhood, estrangement and breaking the cycle of childhood abuse.
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| Issues | 12 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | a year ago |
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Why both-and thinking is so freeing as an estranged adult child
I've always struggled with ambiguity. It wasn't particularly safe for me as a child to get things wrong, give an unpalatable reply or to not have an answer straight away when asked. My mother didn't like any of those and she'd make that ver...
Happy birthday, little unloved me
When you had a shitty childhood, birthdays as an adult can really do a number on you. It’s 5 days before my 37th birthday and I’m feeling an all-too-familiar mix of dread, shame, longing to be seen and lack of self-worth that rears its head...
9 months in, 9 months out
I held you in my arms, solid, pink and wrinkled
Just 9 long, short months ago
My body ached and arched and burned,
Stretched and shrunk and yearned
To look like me again
But she's nowhere to be found
Did you know that when flamingos h...
Elphaba: an icon for the family scapegoat
Like half of the universe, I went along to watch Wicked at the cinema last weekend. The film tells the story of Elphaba, the endlessly misunderstood and bullied 'wicked' witch of the West.
As townsfolk celebrate her death, it ta...
The agony of maternal rage
Anger, for most of my life, was a very, very bad feeling. A red hot, out of control, spicy-tongued tornado that wreaked havoc in my body, my mind and my life.
As a child, my anger was dangerous. It could summon the violent fury of my moth...
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A cycle-breaking mother trying to heal my inner child as I raise two of my own. Writing on estrangement, motherhood and learnings from therapy.
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