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Home: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness and Healing from Complex PTSD
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Part investigation, part love letter to survival, HOME is a courageous story of trauma and transformation, love and forgiveness, and realizing that sometimes the home you’re searching for is the one you build inside yourself.
In my research, I discovered that while my experiences had left me with long-lasting trauma, they had also resulted in talents and skills that would serve me later in life.
This, I believe, is the greatest aspiration for those who have suffered complex trauma – to find hope and meaning within the events we were unable to control. Home is a memoir of survival, belonging, and the hard-won truth that healing is possible.
“I suspected that something from my past was reaching into the present and hijacking the happy life I’d carefully built.”
After nearly losing her husband, Amy Smyth Miller’s panic spirals out of control. Therapy reveals a diagnosis: Complex PTSD. In search of healing, Amy embarks on a harrowing excavation of her past—childhood neglect, homelessness, parental addiction, and a family history shadowed by suicide. Amid the wreckage, she discovers the people and circumstances that kept her safe and helped to shape her life: her wise great-grandmother’s teachings, the watchful eyes of caring adults, and her own fierce determination. Each memory is a clue, each family story a piece of the puzzle. But the most elusive truth is buried in a forgotten childhood memory—one that holds the key to her deepest fear.
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