Winters
When Personal and Cultural Cycles Turn Dark
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Today I am sharing a story written by one of our Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Education Substack subscribers, Lynne Feldman. Lynne participates in our monthly Writers Group Chat - a paid subscriber feature where community members can explore issues related to healing from FSA through journaling, memoirs, poetry, or other personal works. You can learn more about our paid and free community offerings by visiting https://familyscapegoathealing.substack.com/p/explore-our-community
In Winters, Lynne explores her internal and external sense of Winter while also weaving in a poetic work of her mother’s, who was an accomplished poet and painter. She also acknowledges the impact of family scapegoating and its effects, including redefining herself beyond the distorted ‘scapegoat’ identity:
I integrated being a Family Scapegoat Abuse survivor with insights gained from decades of trauma therapy; I saw…