Mothers’ Day | LOUISE ALLAN

Rewriting Mothers’ Day

by Louise Allan | May 15, 2015 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, FAMILY AND PARENTING, MEMOIR

I wrote and published Monday’s Mothers’ Day post in record time—it was done and dusted in under thirty minutes. I wrote the thoughts as they came and published it with little editing. I knew it was raw, but I knew if I thought about it too long, I...

(Un)Happy Mothers’ Day

by Louise Allan | May 11, 2015 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, FAMILY AND PARENTING, MEMOIR, WRITING

What do you do when you dread ‘Mothers’ Day’ coming around each year? When those words cause your insides to shrivel because all they do is remind you of the Mothers’ Days of your childhood, when you hid in your bedroom, while your mother stood...