Past Tense - Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy

A brave and captivating graphic memoir about the power of therapy to heal anxiety and generational trauma When Sacha Mardou turned forty-years-old, she was leading a life that looked perfect on the outside: happily married to the love of her life, enjoying motherhood and her six-year-old daughter, and her first book had just been published. But for reasons she couldn’t explain, the anxiety that had always plagued her only seemed to be getting worse and then, without warning, she began breaking out in terrible acne. The product of a stoic, working-class British family, Sacha had a deeply seeded distrust of mental health treatment, but now, living the life she’d built in the US and desperate for relief, she finds herself in a therapist’s office for the first time. There she begins the real work of growing up: learning to understand her family of origin and the childhood trauma she thought she’d left hidden in the past but is still entangled in her present life. As Sacha’s emotional life begins to unfreeze and she lets go of the shame she’s long held, she realizes that the work she’s doing and her love for her family can ripple outward too, changing her relationships now, and creating a new legacy for her daughter. Bravely told, visceral, and profoundly moving,

About the author

Sacha Mardou

Product details

• Authors: Sacha Mardou, Mardou Sacha
• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9780593541364
• ISBN: 978-0-593-54136-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 238 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias