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A personal narrative about growing up in the space between adults, learning to carry emotional weight too early, and slowly understanding how those early roles echo into adulthood. Between Their Voices weaves memory with reflective psychoanalysis to explore family, conflict, guilt, and the long process of making sense of what was never named. This is a story of witnessing, surviving, and beginning to unlearn what no child should have had to carry.
Between Their Voices is a reflective memoir about growing up inside family conflict-and how the emotional roles we learn as children quietly shape the way we love, attach, and carry responsibility into adulthood.
Through a series of intimate memories paired with first-person psychological reflection, the author traces how a child becomes the mediator, the stabiliser, the one who learns to hold tension so others don't have to. The book explores themes of parentification, triangulation, attachment, guilt, and faith-offering language for experiences that often remain unnamed.
This is not a story about blame, nor is it a guide to healing.
It is an honest account of adaptation-of how a child learns to survive instability by becoming emotionally attuned, careful with words, and overly responsible for peace. Written for those who grew up managing other people's emotions,
for those who learned to stay small to keep relationships intact,
and for anyone seeking to understand how the past continues to echo through present-day patterns.
This is a story about learning to step out of the space between others-and finally take up space of your own.
About the Author
The author does not identify as a writer, but as someone who needed to tell the truth of her own experience. This book began as a way to process, reflect, and heal. Between Their Voices exists because some stories ask to be written before we feel ready to call ourselves anything at all.