I sat down with author, mother, sister and daughter Gina Demillo Wagner to discuss her beautiful memoir "Forces of Nature," where she recounts with such wisdom and warmth her experience growing up in an abusive household, having a special needs sibling, and mourning his sudden death in adulthood.
While the details of her life story are specific to her, we zoom out into the complexity of grieving a relationship that never had repair, closure, and had both harm and love in it. I've been noticing how much our generation of parents is grappling with (or will soon grapple with) our parents aging and dying, and if this is you and your story this episode is hopefully healing and expanding to put in your brain and body. We also discuss relational trauma, and how we both have found healing and reframing in nature, small gestures, and the relationships around us that don't come in the form of the ones that harmed us.
This was such a beautiful, deep and lovely conversation with such a wise woman. Highly recommend and hope it touches your beautiful heart!
If you'd like to connect further with Gina and her beautiful writing, you can go to her website: https://ginadwagner.com/
