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If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother: A Conversation With Author Laura Davis
The author of the best-selling guide, The Courage to Heal, faces her greatest fear, her mother.
Laura Davis, the author of six best-selling books including The Courage to Heal and I Thought We’d Never Speak Again, wanted to explore the mother/daughter bond, yet ended up writing what I found to be a profoundly spiritual book. I, on the other hand, set out to write a book about a spiritual experience, only to discover much of my story was about my mother. I knew none of this before jumping on the chance to snap up The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother Daughter Story (out now), only that this author, whose work had transformed many lives, had now written a memoir.
Unlike her previous works, manuals geared toward survivors of sexual trauma, this book is a vivid portrayal of what it’s like to care for an aging parent. Given my dad’s current health decline, her book spoke to me. But The Burning Light of Two Stars is a balm for anyone who’s done the work of healing family wounds.
Below is a transcript of our conversation, edited for brevity and clarity.
KIRCHNER: In I Thought We’d Never Speak Again, you’ve written about reconciling with your mother. In revisiting that topic…
