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My memoir, The Trip of My Life, was inspired by the death of my son Trip. He took his own life in 2014. He was 48. Trip was the oldest of five children and my only son. His death stirred up a hornet’s nest of childhood trauma I experienced as the daughter of two narcissistic, alcoholic, and domestically violent parents. The memoir includes these oppressive experiences. 

My childhood led me to become a therapist mid-way through my life. I wanted to understand my own pain and hoped I might help others to never feel as bad about themselves as I had. One of my two sisters also became a therapist. 

I suspect there are many readers who will identify with having had unloving and hurtful parents. Perhaps my memoir will give them hope that they can heal from their grief and pain and unlearn the negative and limiting beliefs they had absorbed about themselves as children. 

Readers will be introduced to Trip, who he was, the story of my grief over his loss, and my professional and personal insights as I struggle to overcome having been the child of my parents.