Adult Children of Alcoholics, Addicts, and Abuse

  Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained by   Betsy Petersen Timmy Cham 's review Sep 19, 2020   ·    edit really liked it "The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner How much of our present behavior is just an aftershock of a traumatic earthquake which occurred in childhood? Betsy Petersen's memoir of recovery from incest provides an admirably detailed and poignant portrait: I did not know what I was doing. I only knew I was angry with  [my children]  and they didn't deserve it. Until I had gotten back the missing parts of my past, I couldn't make the connections between my anger at my children in the present and the numb compliance of my childhood. (page 93) Through a memoir which reads like a novel, Petersen recounts her struggles to reclaim the memories of what was done to her --and how her childhood trauma later impacted her attitudes and feelings about sexuality (49-51), motherhood (81-96), money (109-1...