Publisher's Synopsis
For the last 100 + years, my family lived lives filled with rage, blame, greed, divorce, toxic selfishness, shame and lies while pretending everything was fine. The emotionally toxic ties between myself and my parents and their parents caused me to live a false life and until recently, I could not answer the question "Who am I?"I navigated recklessly through a long and messy terrain in an effort to disentangle myself from the web of fear, obligation and guilt. It was a painful, sometimes unbearable, process of separation that nearly ended in tragedy on a dark winter night in 2014.I wanted to break the cycle.It had to end here, with me.Breaking free from emotionally disturbed familial chains resulted in an identity crisis - more than once. To learn how to mourn the loss of people who are still alive was life defining. My healing journey resulted in dozens of AHA! moments and I ended up discovering that my existence was dictated and controlled, both consciously and unconsciously, by a long history of emotional abuse and neglect. This my story, which I hope is so relate-able, it becomes, in a healing way, "everyone's story".
