Pain - Where Does It Go?
The pain of losing contact with your child doesn't sit still. It moves. It reaches. It looks for a place to go. And almost universally, it keeps reaching toward the same place: the person who caused it.

The pain of losing contact with your child doesn't sit still. It moves. It reaches. It looks for a place to go. And almost universally, it keeps reaching toward the same place: the person who caused it.

Reconciliation gets framed as the finish line, but what nobody tells you is that reconciliation can also be the beginning of a new kind of grief. One that is quieter, more confusing, and in some ways harder to explain.

Estranged moms often find relief in deciding the estrangement is "their problem." But what if that certainty is costing you something? Kreed Revere explores the difference between protection and shutdown in estrangement recovery.

Here is the problem with a pain you can’t see the parts of: you can’t work with it. You can only endure it.
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