Mom Said The Anniversary Trip Was Canceled Because Of Budget Issues. A Week Later I Found A Facebook Album Of My Family In Paris Without Me. Then She Asked Me For Help

clearly. My therapist, Dr. Okonkwo, was direct and perceptive, and had a gift for handing you the precise word for something you’d been feeling in the dark.

“What you’re describing,” she had said during one of our sessions, “isn’t generosity. It’s a trauma response. You associate helping this person with honoring your father. When he invokes your dad,continue reading …