Say Good Morning.Īs this Halloween week begins, Good Morning, Monster reminds us that the horrors are all too real. Monsters and victims, and we have no idea. Rather, they are deeply engrossing and heartbreakingly human. These stories are told in narrative fashion taken from clinical notes, but they are not clinical. Custody of two tiny girls was given to a monster. Alana and her younger sister were reared by their brilliant father who wrangled custody away from their mother. Danny and his family were victims of Canadian government policy regarding indigenous people. When she was a child, Madeline’s mother greeted her each morning with “Good morning, monster.” And not as a term of endearment, you see. Psychotherapy itself is long process, comes with pitfalls and is not for sissies, but these five are here to speak. All have given permission to use their experiences, but, even so, their stories are told in such a way as to retain their anonymity – Laura, Peter, Danny, Alana and Madeline. Retired Canadian psychotherapist Catherine Gildiner subtitles her good work of non-fiction Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery and recounts the inspirational stories of five former patients whom she considers heroes for their lives of struggle, their hard work in therapy and their willingness to share.
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