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When helping your child tell their story means facing your failures

My son wants me to help him write his college essays but everything he wants to write about is family trauma that I caused and I don't know how to help him tell that story.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Supporting our children's voices can require us to witness our own harm from their perspective.

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