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WTF? Where's the Family?

Restoring nuance to the conversation about estrangement. Giving parents a voice where silence often lives.

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Hidden Grief, Hidden Identity

Hiding in Plain Sight

The Question I Brought Home From Chicago's Family Summit

An observation from the 2026 Family Summit, Chicago.

RECAP THE FAMILY SUMMIT

Friday 8/7 Zoom

The Frictionless Family

When Love Is Expected to Require No Repair

How Are the Kids?

On wounds, worthiness, and the work of repair

What Estrangement Didn’t Take

Sometimes healing begins as nothing more than tolerating what once would have undone you.

Not Answers. Recognition.

Recognizing the grief, ambiguity, and lived reality of estrangement

From the Child’s Eyes Up

The Grandchildren No One Asks About

What This Week Has Been Like

And What It’s Telling Me

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t Is Here

A memoir about estrangement, loss without closure, and living on.