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Chapter 1: self awareness

As she grew older, she learned the value of suppressing her response to everything her father doled out….. by the time she was 9, she had stripped herself of emotion the way another sort of child might have stripped bark off a birch tree.

“That was love wasn’t it? It’s wasn’t just a quick drop - it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as the became new people.

Favourite quote: “Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”

“Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don’t believe it, I know this: a warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”