Trauma - Episode 2

In this episode, I go through my own story, and give the background that is the genesis of this project. My husband’s arrest wrecked me, and I spent way too long trying to turn that story into a book-length nonfiction project, which never got off the ground.

I realized, finally, that the story of my trauma was only the genesis of a larger project, and not an independent project in and of itself. I wanted to find a crossroads between creative nonfiction and journalism. I wanted to gather first-person narratives of motherhood, but more than that, I wanted to give my guests the same experience that I had when I worked as a columnist for my local newspaper.

Not only was I given a voice, in my column, to tell my story – to have someone bear witness to my experience – but I was given the gift of feedback. I had people tell me that they woke up every Saturday excited to read my story that week. I had one woman tell me that she mended a yearlong broken relationship with her daughter, and that she was getting a visit that afternoon from her grandson, who’d been estranged from her for a year because of the rift. After reading the column, she said, she reached out to her daughter and the two had made significant gains in repairing their relationship.

That was powerful.

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