Content note: childhood trauma, parental alcoholism, dissociation.
I was six and my sister was four. A huge thunderstorm was hitting, and our dad was passed out drunk upstairs. We tried to wake him and couldn't.
That's when I learned I could leave my body so I didn't have to feel it. That was dissociation, and it's how the first chapter of my new book opens.
Some survival skills get learned way too early.
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