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A deeply personal and profoundly practical guide to understanding, honoring, and expressing the most complex love of your life. From childhood memories to adult reconciliation, from daily rituals to final conversations, this book gives you the words, the courage, and the clarity to love your mother — and yourself — more fully.
There is a moment that almost every adult child can recall — standing in a grocery store, or sitting in a car, or watching the news — when something small and unremarkable happens, and suddenly you are thinking about your mother. Not in a grand, cinematic way. Just a flicker. The way she used to hum while she cooked. The specific weight of her hand...
In 1994, a researcher named Vincent Felitti published findings from what would become one of the most significant public health studies of the twentieth century. Working with Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control, Felitti and his colleagues surveyed more than seventeen thousand patients about their childhood experiences — abuse, neg...