After DNA tests revealed she wasn’t related to her late father, Georgina Lawton found therapy was the only way to heal the rift between her and her mother
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Mum and I embarked on joint therapy around two years ago, when the foundations of our relationship lay in ruins. My dad – and mum’s husband of more than 20 years – had passed away in 2015, and both of us were grieving in very similar, but very separate, ways. We were united in a grief that was long and arduous, like wading through the unending waters of a dark swamp, but we couldn’t help each other through it.
I went hoarse from screaming that session. Yes, my childhood was defined by bedtime routines, homework help and happy holidays to Spain.
Gradually though we started to hear one another, and therapy has changed our relationship for the better. We dutifully arrived week after week, come hail, rain or shine, and after a year and a half, we reached a turning point when one session ended in a heartfelt admission of love and forgiveness. “My mum went without hugs, ‘I-love-yous’ or open dialogues about relationships throughout her childhood”
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