Recovery from Child Abuse

Why I Chose to Be Motherless—Part 6

by Louise Allan | Sep 15, 2014 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, MEMOIR, WRITING

This is the final instalment in this series. The first post, which is about my childhood, can be found here. You can click the links at the end of each post to follow the series to here. It seems that September is my month for writing about the...

Why I Chose to be Motherless – Part 5

by Louise Allan | Sep 8, 2014 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, MEMOIR, WRITING

If you’ve landed here, you might want to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 first. In Western Australia My mother packed up their house in Tasmania, and in February 2011, my husband flew over and brought both of my parents back with...

Why I Chose to be Motherless – Part 4

by Louise Allan | Sep 8, 2014 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, MEMOIR, WRITING

Here’s the rest of the story. Because it’s long, I’ve split it into two parts, both of which I’ll post today. I apologise, once again, for the length of these posts, but I’m nearly there, nearly through telling this story. If...