By Lauren Benson Am I Doing Enough to Break the Cycle?
I’m lying in bed, trying to shut off my ADHD brain. I’m usually caught in a cycle of obsessively overthinking…
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By A Cogent Breaking the Cycle of Motherly Abandonment
I remember lying there, having just heard the first screams of my newly-born baby girl. Feeling incredibly worn out, yet…
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By Her View From Home Being the Cycle Breaker in a Toxic Family Is Lonely but Worth It
I am a cycle breaker. My maternal grandmother was abusive, and my mother carried the torch for the next generation.…
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By Carole Hawkins Her Future Will Not Be My Broken Past
Forty years ago, you were an innocent child. You were brought into this world for a purpose. Your innocence is…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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By Emily Roussell My Mother Gave Us the Love She Never Received
Glennon Doyle says, “The miracle of grace is that you can give what you have never gotten.” It’s one of…
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No Matter What You’ve Been Told, You are Worthy of Love
There are days I still feel like the 11-year-old girl whose dreams were shattered by the person who held my…
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