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Alice Munro and the Loneliness of the Abandoned Child
Recent revelations about author Alice Munro cause this writer to reflect on her own childhood
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Aug 3, 20242 min read
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Beautiful and Brutal: My Bilateral Mastectomy
One Woman Finds Trauma in Unexpected Places in Getting a Bilateral Mastectomy
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Apr 21, 20242 min read
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Far From Fifteen: Cancer at Age 53
Dread and terror are best dispersed by mundane reality. At the age of 15, as I made the final steps into my isolation room for a bone...
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Dec 8, 20232 min read
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My Unorthodox Cancer Dream Team
Trauma prepares one for trauma. I have a deep and developed knowledge of suffering. I know what it is and how I want to handle it. I know...
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Nov 5, 20232 min read
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Breast Cancer: Health, A Far Horizon
Every journey is easier once begun. So I think to myself and say to myself as I cross another threshold in the architecture of oncology....
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Oct 25, 20231 min read
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Growing Out of Trauma and Into Health
Because my parents punished me every time I asserted myself, my nervous system continues to recoil every time I do so, even at the age of...
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Jan 10, 20232 min read
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Closing the Book on Gaslighting: On Learning My Psychiatrist of 20 Years Lost His Medical Licence
I shall close the long and gruesome history of gaslighting in my life with the following fact: my psychiatrist of almost 20 years lost...
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Jun 15, 20222 min read
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The Writer on Self-Creation
Not allowed to speak my thoughts or show my feelings, I was driven by my family of origin into art. More like, taken, tied, threatened,...
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May 22, 20222 min read
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On Escaping the Land of Delusion
I have broken the family contract. My mother enforced it: we (mother and three daughters) were never to acknowledge or object to my...
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May 12, 20221 min read
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I'm Still Here
Whenever I doubt myself, the continuity of my mind and my body, all I need to do is dance, turning and winding and bending and...
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May 6, 20221 min read
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Underrated Superpowers: Listening and Watching
If the abusers and alcoholics in my life sentenced me to silence, then in silence I learned and became acute. Who knew listening and...
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Mar 24, 20221 min read
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The Artful Beast
I think too much about goodness. Like any child I was taught that being good was ideal, “good” was what you should aspire too, “good” was...
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Mar 5, 20222 min read
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Not Today Death
Hold off, Death, I say, Not for me today, Not for the immediate future. I walk away healthy from the cancer clinic. I walk away healthy...
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Feb 15, 20221 min read
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Continuing the Dance
I keep waiting to be tried for my crimes against humanity. What crimes, you might ask? (I ask myself as well, in constant evaluation of...
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Feb 3, 20221 min read
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Healing from Psychiatry's Excesses
Because I was determined to live fully and deeply, I weaned myself off psychiatric drugs. The suffering was intense but worthwhile....
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Dec 16, 20212 min read
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Knowing When to Walk Away
Having recently cut all ties with my family of origin, I have moved from anger, shock, and loss to feelings of freedom, joy, and release....
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Dec 4, 20211 min read
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
My parents’ training of me started early and was original in its cruelty. Christmas day, 1975, when I was five years old, I cried because...
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Nov 25, 20212 min read
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Death Be Not Proud
Even before I confronted death at age 15, I had tastes, desires, and a temperament that did not fit. I danced, and sang, and immersed...
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Nov 19, 20212 min read
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My Only Judge, My Heart
I have told my story, read and reread it, edited and proofed it, polished and published it. So goodbye to all that. I slam the door on...
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Oct 31, 20211 min read
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To the Women Whose Unofficial Job Is Love
There are women who taught me how to live. How to listen to myself and others. How to ask questions and stay curious. How to explore. How...
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May 8, 20211 min read
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