{"product_id":"fractured-motherhood-when-love-trauma-and-parenting-intertwine-9780648603832","title":"Fractured Motherhood: when love, trauma and parenting intertwine","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Walters\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Blue Gum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Blue Gum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe never thought she could be a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Not after an abusive childhood. Not with a mind fractured by multiple personality disorder. And not with the fear that she might repeat her parents' mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Maggie Walters and her partner began the long, uncertain process of adopting three children from the Philippines, motherhood arrived first as waiting-fraught with paperwork, distance, and the quiet terror of hope. By the time her children came home, motherhood became both a reckoning and a revelation. Every tantrum, every silence, every ordinary chaos tested her deepest dread: \u003cem\u003ewhat if I become my parents?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo break the cycle, Maggie turned back to her own parents' hidden histories, uncovering the traumas that had shaped-and broken-generations. In learning their story, she began to rewrite her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs her children grew up laughing, quarrelling, and living the carefree childhood she never knew, their wholeness became her healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFractured Motherhood\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw and lyrical memoir of fear and resilience, love and repair-a story of inherited wounds, and of how family can be both the wound and the cure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Gum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568570515607,"sku":"9780648603832","price":1769.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780648603832.webp?v=1774869338","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fractured-motherhood-when-love-trauma-and-parenting-intertwine-9780648603832","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}