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Truth Has a Different Shape (Paperback) Loot Price: R546
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Truth Has a Different Shape (Paperback): Kari O'Driscoll

Truth Has a Different Shape (Paperback)

Kari O'Driscoll

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A family built, a family lost. Truth Has a Different Shape is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O'Driscoll was taught that strength and stoicism were one and the same. She was also taught that a girl's job was to take care of everyone else. For decades, she believed these ideas, doing everything she could to try and keep the remaining parts of her family together, systematically anticipating disaster and fixing catastrophes one by one. Truth Has a Different Shape is one woman's meditation on how societal and familial expectations of mothering influenced her sense of self and purpose, as well as her ideas about caretaking. As an adult, finding herself a caretaker both to her own children and to her aging parents, O'Driscoll finally reckons with the childhood trauma that shaped her world. Adoption, loss, and divorce defined her approach to motherhood, but in Truth Has a Different Shape, O'Driscoll finally pushes back. This memoir tracks her progress as she discovers how to truly care for those she loves without putting herself at risk, using mindfulness and compassion as tools for healing both herself and her difficult relationships.

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Imprint: CavanKerry Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2020
Authors: Kari O'Driscoll
Dimensions: 241 x 145 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-1-933880-76-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Adoption & tracing birth parents
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-933880-76-7
Barcode: 9781933880761

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