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My Sister Didn't Survive Our Family
Content warning: This episode discusses childhood abuse, domestic violence, racial slurs, and the death of a sibling.
In this Q&A episode, Whitney reads a single letter from a woman who survived a childhood of severe violence, lost her sister at 24, and is now permanently no contact with a family system that still minimizes what happened. Whitney takes the letter in pieces and answers all three of her questions.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How to grieve a sibling whose life was overshadowed by abuse, without reducing them to what was done to them
Why thriving after you escape is not a…
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