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Embracing Resistance: How I Learned to Trust, Honour, and Love My Way Through Writing Resolve
???? “We make sense, or fail to make sense, of our lives by the kind of story we can, or cannot, tell about it.” – Joseph Dunne When I began writing Resolve, I had no idea how much resistance would become part of my process. I thought resistance was the enemy. A force pushing back at me, trying to stop me from doing what needed to be done. But as I’ve learned, resistance is deeply a part of us, and when approached with understanding, it transforms from an obstacle into an ally. I remember the silence of my office as I wrote the first words of my manuscript. It wasn’t…
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The Knowing Moments
Have you ever had a moment where something deep within you just surfaced — a truth that you’ve always known but never fully acknowledged? In my healing journey, I’ve come to coin these as knowings. They are epiphanies, but they don’t come from an external spark; they come from within me, quietly waiting for the right time.
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From Silence to Stories: How Memoirs Are Changing the Conversation on Sibling Sexual Abuse
Each of us thought we were alone. We knew incest and sibling incest existed, but no one ever talked about sibling sexual abuse and harm. It was a silence wrapped in shame, guilt, and self-blame—a silence that extended to how our families managed (or didn’t manage) this devastating reality. Families often didn’t know what to do because, honestly, they likely had no idea what to do, because no one spoke about it… they also felt like they were alone. And so, the survivors carried the silence into adulthood until one day, each of us—myself, Diane Tarantini, Jane Epstein, and Maria Socolof—decided to break it. We wrote memoirs. Not quickly or…
