Credit: Chelsea Bieker
Relationships
“Loving a mother addicted to alcohol was endlessly frustrating – until I found her journal entries”
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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