The Unseen Secret Behind Joy V.’s Enigmatic Lightkeeping Journey Revealed
To cope, I started to see a therapist who specialized in acceptance and commitment therapy, which asks that clients accept the hardships of life and commit to navigating them with a personal value system. Right away, I prioritized compassion as my top value — for myself, and for Nathan.
I also started reading the Al-Anon forum on Reddit, where I finally saw stories that echoed my own, stories of people devastated by the brutality of their loved one’s affliction. Through this forum, I began to understand the value of detachment, though it was far more difficult to put into action. For me, “detachment” was adjacent to abandonment, a word I used to describe how I felt after my mother’s first suicide attempt. At the time, I was in my thirties, and Nathan was in his twenties. She had survived, but I was forever changed, forever scarred. My mother had wanted to leave the world, regardless of how it would affect her children.
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