Meg Josephson

“We can't think our way out of an abandonment wound. Abandonment wounds are the deepest, most raw, painful, and so you're totally correct. There's there's a disconnect. It's like, well, I know I didn't do anything wrong to earn this, but it still feels so painful. And those two things can be true at the same time.”

“As someone who grew up with a father who struggled with addiction, I it's it's so- it's, you know, that pain needs to be processed and felt. That anger, that grief, it needs to be there. And so I think just being a steady presence in your children's processing is the best thing you can do”

“I think the power of acknowledgement can be the biggest healer of them all, but it being an uncomfortable day doesn't mean you need to do something differently. I think it just means it's a it's bringing up what was already there in the first place.”

“even if you wanted to reconcile the relationship, could you? Probably not. It's probably not in your control to manage where your children are at in processing that diff- really difficult, probably painful relationship with their father.”