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The Runes: A Deeper Journey

by Kari C Tauring

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Eight Things I Wish I'd Known About Polyamory: Before I Tried It and Frakked It Up

by Cunning Minx

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“So it felt significant—generous—for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize—even among this generation that was so inured to pain—that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Learning to need a family—to rely on them and give myself to them—was a skill I had to learn in order to date Joey.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“You’ve interviewed sixty people who are estranged from their parents,” I stammered. “I don’t know if you have studies on it, but, um, in your experience—did the people who estranged themselves, did they feel free afterward?” “No,” Catherine said with certainty. I waited. There was nothing else.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“You don’t know why? You honestly don’t know why?” “Tell me in one sentence why. I just want to hear one sentence.” I said it slowly. “Because you don’t love me.” “What do you mean I don’t love you? Tell me what that means.” “What does that mean? Abuse. Neglect. And you used me…”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“In Gretchen Schmelzer’s excellent, gentle book, Journey Through Trauma, she insists on the fifth page: “Some of you may choose a therapist: a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counselor, or member of the clergy. Some of you may choose some form of group therapy. But I am telling you up front, at the beginning: in order to heal, you will need to get help. I know you will try to look for the loophole in this argument—try to find a way that you can do this on your own—but you need to trust me on this. If there were a way to do it on your own I would have found it. No one looked harder for that loophole than I did.”[1]”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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