“Loving a mother addicted to alcohol was endlessly frustrating – until I found her journal entries”

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“Loving a mother addicted to alcohol was endlessly frustrating – until I found her journal entries”

By Chelsea Bieker

8 months ago

7 min read

Growing up, writer Chelsea Bieker believed she’d been starved of her alcoholic mother’s love. But upon becoming a mother herself, and finding her mum’s old journals, Bieker realised things were far more complicated than she’d realised.


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