Trauma is scary. Of course we adoptees have been through trauma and experience it when triggered. So we desperately want it gone. We want to be FROM trauma. But what we focus on gets bigger and what we resist persists. What if we could be free WITH it? Listen in as we explore this...
Here's links I mention
Bullying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBsDhBu7eUY&t
Healing my primal wound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnz7I7V_IOQ
Molly McCaffrey goes as M Hendrix (she/her).
Born in Baltimore and raised in New Jersey, she is an adoptee who has lived in ten states and now makes her home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with her husband, New York Times bestselling author David Bell. The Chaperone is her first novel - forthcoming with Sourcebooks Fire on June 6, 2023.
M earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University before studying literature and creative writing in graduate school, receiving her master’s degree from Miami University and her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, where she was a Taft Fellow. She has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize and was shortlisted for the Aesthetica creative writing award. She is represented by John Cusick of Folio Literary.
Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Aesthetica, The Independent, USA Today, The Vestal Review, Psychology Today, The Satirist, Nzuri, The Haven, Letters to Dead Authors, Medium, 2nd & Church, Word Salad, Quirk, Cairn, Gravity Hill, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Bowling Green Daily News, and more. She is also the author of two previous books. For a complete list of publications, click here.
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Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.
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