What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone
Held in Mind: A Memoir by Lindsay Johnstone
Episode Twenty Six: A Clever Girl
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Episode Twenty Six: A Clever Girl

It's her dad's birthday, and in a therapy session Lindsay looks to the past. Grapples with whose story to believe: her own, or the ones she imagines her parents would tell?

‘A deep excavation of family and self’

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Held in Mind: a Memoir

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November 26, 2023
Held in Mind: a Memoir

In the absence of a ‘well’ mother, can it ever be possible to become a ‘good enough’ one yourself? Does mothering your own mother risk…

1st October 2020

“I’d never told Dad that it felt safer in his absence. He could arrive at Auchengate or to Riverbank Street and take us away, leaving my sense of security behind. And it was unsafe to show my fear. He didn’t know I s…

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