This is a “shitty first draft” as Anne Lamott told us to write, to get out the first draft without the naysaying voice telling us everything that is wrong with it. It is from the end of my book “Closed Doors” about #generational_trauma and #motherhood and the #moral_injury that we all endure.

I finally printed out the latest version of my #novel on #generational_trauma

We also watched her try to choke out my grandmother. That woman was a miserable ghoul, and was also violent with me once, so it's hard not to feel like she deserved it. But you can't be doing that. #family_bliss #generational_trauma #the_cycle