For some women Mother’s Day is not an easy day. Daughters of mothers who could not nurture them experience emotional fallout that casts a shadow over this day and indeed their lives. Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes about the Stone Child, stories and myths of the unmothered child. As women, we experience “collapsing” and a wildContinue reading “Lighting the Mother Shadow”
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A Private Concentration Camp
October is Domestic Violence Prevention month. Many say they are tired of hearing about it. Why doesn’t she just leave? They don’t ask why he continues to be insane. Why does he kick the woman carrying his child to the ground? Why he hates someone who is devoted to his happiness? Why he refuses to take responsibilityContinue reading “A Private Concentration Camp”
Shirley Fessel 