The Long Tail of Trauma

A Memoir

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Pub Date 11 Nov 2020 | Archive Date 29 Dec 2020

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 This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores the author's maternal history of repeated trauma, separation, adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and their impact on mental health. Set against a twenty-year dialogue with her mother Barbara who suffers from long undiagnosed PTSD, author Elizabeth Wilcox opens her maternal history with the birth of her illegitimate grandmother Violet to a German house servant outside London in 1904. With her mother's encouragement, Wilcox goes on to trace the lives of her grandmother Violet and her mother Barbara, both of whom are deeply impacted by maternal separation and the complex trauma they have endured. Violet undergoes multiple separations: from her mother until the age of six, from her German Jewish stepfather during WWI at the age of ten, and from her own three-year-old daughter Barbara when her family escapes without her from Holland during Hitler's invasion. Later put on a train to Wales with her eighteen-month-old brother Neville during Operation Pied Piper, Barbara also tragically endures an itinerant childhood characterized by maternal separation, foster homes, boarding schools, and abuse. Through a dual timeline that is both present day and historic, Wilcox weaves together these documented and imagined voices of the women who precede her, while using her experience as a journalist and writer in the field of early childhood education and mental health to explore the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult wellbeing and mental health. Through her work and her mother Barbara who has successfully raised seven children despite her difficult past, Wilcox also shows what it means to parent with intention, forgiveness and unconditional love.

This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores the author's...


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Ebook: 9781950584635


Audiobook: 9781950584642

Ebook: 9781950584635


Audiobook: 9781950584642


Advance Praise

“A fascinating journey into the many ways in which inherited trauma wires us. Part personal history and part psychological quest, the book is an incredibly good read on the legacy of trauma and what can get handed down from the family we're born into. The writing zings with honesty and wisdom about what it means to be a mother who forgives herself—and who is also able to forgive her own mother. Woven throughout is a beating heart that reminds us that in the end, love is what will carry us through.”
—Author Susan Conley, The Foremost Good Fortune

“A fascinating journey into the many ways in which inherited trauma wires us. Part personal history and part psychological quest, the book is an incredibly good read on the legacy of trauma and what...


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