by Hollye Dexter | May 13, 2012 | dysfunctional family, family, family estrangement, family relationships, healing family relationships, mother's day, mothers and daughters, surviving childhood trauma, The Courage to Heal
This is the only childhood photo I have of my mother and I together. Like this photo, our relationship is faded, tattered at the edges. Things happened in our family, horrible things, that not only burned the bridge between us, but blew it into a million sharp...
by Hollye Dexter | May 17, 2010 | family, gratitude, living authentically, Middle Age, mother's day, motherhood, motherless, telling the truth
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thankyou, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart Every year I struggle emotionally on Mother’s Day. Yes, I know it’s a fabricated holiday, created by Hallmark cards, and all that. But the sentimental ads, the...