There Is A Day Beyond The Night
Being an estranged parent teaches you how to live with silence - how to hold love in your hands like water, afraid that the slightest movement might cause it to slip through your fingers. You learn to trade your voice for proximity, your pain for presence. And you do it gladly. Because just seeing her happy, seeing her okay, is everything.
The Winner Takes It All
Parental Alienation: When one parent, often through manipulative behavior, intentionally turns their children against the other parent. It is a distortion of the intentions, attitudes, and behaviors of the alienated parent in an effort to control, punish, or demean the other parent. It is a form of brainwashing.- Ann Silvers, MA
Letting Go
How do you let go of someone who is a part of you? You are my blood, my DNA, my first child, my daughter.
This Side Of the Glass
Music is a powerful medium for emotional healing. The song “The Glass” by the Foo Fighters and performed with H.E.R hit me so hard the first time I listened to it. The lyrics really resonate with anyone who has experienced estrangement, no matter which side of the glass you’re on. Link to listen is included.
Love or Enmeshment
“There is no me without you. There is no life in me… without you. I breathe for you. I live for you.” Kevin Hart to his children. Love or enmeshment?