You Know My Wrath: Recent Episodes
Cece Moon
A story of abuse, motherhood, and learning to break free. A young woman learns about her family after finding handwritten composition books her mother wrote. In this limited series, she reads these tragic and poetic stories, told by her mother following the months of her divorce in 1997.
The final effects of leaving her abusive situation, waging a war with her partner. Final reading.
As a therapist going to therapy, what helped and what was lost in looking for outside help to leave.
The control over everyone's emotions during holidays can be draining for victims, and empowering for an abuser.
In this reading we hear of her first attempt to break free, and the violence that follows. Also, we hear first hand a few of the harassing voicemails left on the family's answering machine.
Details of the first incident of physical abuse, and examining the trauma bonding that occurs in an abusive relationship.
In 2008, my mother died, and in searching for her will, I found these handwritten notebooks filled with stories about my her life with my abusive father. She used her writing both as a healing exercise, and to inspire her dissertation on domestic abuse for her PhD in psychotherapy. This is a story told in my mother's words...