The most prevalent emotional residue I have learned from my mother’s bloodline. Avoidance. The pushing an experience of pain away, separating ourselves from its perceived cause, telling ourselves it is ‘out there’ and is doing something ‘to me’ (the victim state). This avoiding of pain rather than opening oneself up to integrate into action that… Read more
Archives for May 2018
?Mothers | The Unspokens.?
The one baby picture that my mother had of herself. And the only picture she had of her mother in her youth. This is all telling of the experiences on this side of my family. My grandmother did not raise my mother. She died a year before I was born. My first name was hers…. Read more