I was 41 When My Trauma Resurfaced

I discovered the mother wound

Rica Ramos-Keenum
Being Known
Published in
6 min readMay 6, 2021

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I didn’t have an easy start but I eventually won the lottery. Not the cash kind, but the love, career, and relationship lottery. I had the ticket to a great life at last. With my loving new husband, I moved into a cozy home and we began our journey together. Within a year, however, my estranged father died unexpectedly and I found myself sinking into…

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Rica Ramos-Keenum
Being Known

Journalist, yoga enthusiast, author of Petals of Rain and Nobody's Daughter: A Memoir of Healing The Mother Wound. Connect at Ricawrites.com