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The Longest Shortest Time

What My Mother And I Don't Talk About

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week two different essays about the wounds our moms can leave us with — and what, if anything, can be done to start the healing. Note: This week’s episode includes adult language and talks about physical and emotional abuse. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Hillary Frank's Weird Parenting Wins book is here! Many of you are in it. Order it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, just a heads up, this week's episode isn't one to listen to with your kids.

0:05.1

There's adult language, and also we're going to be talking about abuse, physical and

0:09.3

emotional.

0:10.3

So, if you need to sit this one out or come back to it later, we totally get it.

0:15.1

Take care of yourselves.

0:16.2

When I think of hashtag MeToo, I think of powerful men and their downfalls.

0:21.9

But back in October 2017, when the spark was first lit, it was about all of these individual

0:28.2

voices coming together.

0:30.1

From famous actresses to Olympic gymnasts to your friends from college, a movement around

0:35.1

saying, yeah, abuse, harassment, assault, me too.

0:42.0

That was the month when Michelle Philgate decided to share her story.

0:45.0

It's a personal essay that she'd been working on on and off for about 10 years.

0:49.6

I was staying with my friend on her house, Bowton, Saw, Salito, and there were nearby wildfires,

0:55.2

and I woke up at dawn because I knew this essay was going to be published that day.

0:59.8

It's a story about abuse.

1:01.8

She experienced as a teenager from her stepfather, but it's really about her mom.

1:07.9

Sitting outside, watching the sunrise through the thick, smoky air, ash started falling

1:13.2

on her keyboard.

1:14.5

It felt so hard to know that this story was now exposed and out there.

1:18.9

It really felt like I was setting fire to my own life.

1:22.0

Michelle, titled her essay.

1:23.8

About my mother and I don't talk about.

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