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Beyond Belief by Colm O'Gorman
Have just finished your book and I want to applaud not only the writing but all you have done in terms of awareness and rights. I am sorry you had to go through such pain. Working in a therapeutic field myself I know something of how important it is to acknowledge how much of an impact such events in early life has on the rest of ones life , and to share something of that process .
On a personal note I have one query. Your mother was there again for your fathers death but then didn’t seem to have much of a role – for example at your court hearings. Was this too painful for her or had you really drifted apart? I know you were an independent man by then; she was inevitably less involved in family life and was active in her own spiritual and yoga path but her absence in the latter part of the book seemed something to me that needed an explanation.
Best wishes
Lynne
Hi Lynne,
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
The focus on my relationship with my Dad is centeal to the book for lots of reasons which are probably self evident from the book itself. Its always difficult to decide how best to focus in on any one area in such a book as it inevitably means that there isn’t space to address other questions.
Dad was central to my decision to report the abuse, in a way that my mother wasn’t, not in any negative sense, thats just how it was. I realise it leaves questions unanswered…but there it is, for now at least!
best,
Colm