The quiet, daily work of healing the past by loving the present. My life has been insane as I focus on finishing a draft of my book, The Choice Was Love: Book One – The Child Who Raised Me, while already drafting parts of Book Two—which I still have no idea how to title. BUT…
I have been retired for about three and a half years, but the life I once imagined looks nothing like the one I am living. Raising my grandchild was not part of the plan, and balancing my expectations with reality has been a challenge. As a single parent to a young child, my dreams of…
Raising grandchildren can be challenging, particularly because they have experienced trauma. As a survivor of abuse, foster parenting, adopting 2 children with trauma, raising those children, and now as a grandparent raising my grandchild, I have faced struggles that others could never comprehend. I have learned that understanding how trauma affects us is key to…