And having to reframe the difficult chapter in her life has been beneficial to her as well.
“Even just telling this story to her, sometimes my daughter wants to play pretend the story of ‘Mommy goes to Italy,'” Amanda said. “She’ll find, like, bars at a playground, and be like, ‘Look, I’m Mommy in jail.’ And it’s just the shift there of, ‘Oh, this is a game.’ Like, it’s not just a horrible, traumatic experience.”
She added, “It’s just that lightness of being of a child that really helps me carry the weight of it.”
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