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“Inside me, I have a mother-shaped hole I will have to learn how to fill with love. And this process will create a more profound and stronger empathy in me. I know this. I trust this. I have to live this. I have no other choice. Otherwise, all of this pain is meaningless.”

Growth Loss Grief Grief And Loss Indigenous Wisdom Matriarchies

Book:Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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“The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole.”

Family Family Relationships Mothers Love Indigenous Peoples Matriarchy Grandmothers Love Aunties Love

Book:Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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“What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?”

Healing Emotions Burden Trauma

Book:Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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“I have done coke off the porcelain backs of public bathroom toilets, but mirrored trays lend some faux class to inhaling cartilage-eating drugs up your nose. The idea becomes alluring and a little more acceptable when mirrored trays are involved. "Excuse me, sir.. I will have some of that high class cocaine".”

Addiction Memoir Cocaine Addiction And Recovery

Book:Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Source: Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir