Mother X : MyBlogHer Profile

The Notebooks of Mother X is about the last three years of my life, during which I've been trying to get help for my teenage daughter who's been at-risk and in crisis.

When I first started this blog in the fall of 2010, I wrote: “I’m finding it hard to write about this; sometimes I’m lucky to get anything down at all. My hope is that writing will help me get through this time and be a little healthier for having had a voice–at least on the page–and that sharing my story may be helpful to other parents who might see aspects of their lives in these notes and feel a little less alone.”

After that, I wrote and posted only four blog entries. My failure to continue the blog had everything to do with the pain of what I was living. Now, I’m ready to try again. It’s not like I haven’t been writing. I’ve filled several notebooks with my messy “secret code” handwriting. 

Names have been changed to protect other people’s privacy–especially my daughter’s. While there are no other fictional inventions here, I intentionally compress parts of the real-life narrative while omitting others for practical purposes.