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A Hole Where My Heart Should Be: Lifting the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma
is a memoir about living with and healing from childhood abuse and emotional neglect, of how damaged parents damage their children, and perpetuate the legacy of intergenerational trauma.
Set in southeastern Australia, from the 1960s to present day, the book recounts, in vivid prose, the agony of living with an emotionally absent and at times, terrifying mother, and subsequently growing into a fearful adult, destined to repeat the same dysfunctional patterns.
To the outside world, the author strove to project an aura of achievement and success, but inside the confines of perfectionism an invisible sea of despair lapped just below the surface. It was only at age 56, through a course of gruelling trauma therapy that the author finally discovered she was mentally ill, and carried inside her mind a tribe of traumatised ‘inner children’, the pieces of a fractured psyche, whose pain and distress caused dramatic but invisible mood swings, feelings of emptiness, toxic shame and self-loathing.
A Hole Where My Heart Should Be is a raw and riveting memoir of what it feels like to live with and heal from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, of confronting our deepest fears and coming home to our true Self.
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