I am delighted to share with you my guest blog post I wrote MentalHealthTalk.Info:
As a trauma therapist, I was busy helping others recover from childhood trauma when my own incest memories surfaced. That was when I was in my late 40’s and as so many of my clients, I protested, “Why now?!” For the first time in my life things were going really well. That’s the way it is with memories. They come when we’re ready for them. Read more
In this blog post Jane Rowan and I compare notes on recovering our lost memories of child sexual abuse. Jane is the author of The River of Forgetting.
Mary: It’s exciting to begin this dialogue with you about our experiences with incest and our paths to healing. We have much in common, along with many differences. We were both successful professionals getting on with our lives (mine as a psychotherapist, yours as a scientist and college teacher) before our memories of incest surfaced.
Let’s start with topic of repressed memories, which is very controversial in some circles. Why were our memories hidden and forgotten for so long? Read more
