The now mum-of-two had only a few surviving members of her family; her aunt, uncle, and their kids. “I don’t know how to write about it, so I thought to just ask people what they think.”She was terrified. But I know that they want to know. First of all, accept you don’t know how to say it all“That realisation that I don’t know how to talk to my children was the beginning of my quest because for a very long time, I just pretended that it wasn’t there. Once I sat down and I thought, ‘I know I have to, and I don’t know how,’ that was the beginning.”Find a safe space to make sense of the trauma yourselfAdvertisement“I wouldn’t have been able to have this conversation five years ago.

Source: Huffington Post August 01, 2021 03:56 UTC