by Tiffany Nicole Washington (Editor), Bambi Gaddist (Foreword by), Julian Scott Green (Author)

This is the story of a son and the mother he loved, fought, protected, and finally had to release. It traces a bond established in trauma: an assault in the womb, a father lost to addiction, and a childhood spent holding himself together. The quiet burdens that travel down a family line appear along with the tools to put them down.
Turning on himself the same tools he offers his clients, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Julian moves through anticipatory grief, hard-won boundaries, and chosen family. He goes lower than he expected, then finds his way back through a ninety-day practice of self-love and intention that becomes the ground of his healing. Along the way, he poses himself an impossible question: if he had seven more minutes with his mother, how would he spend them? He dares to answer it. Tender, unflinching, and lit with dark humor, this memoir explores what a lifetime of caring for others can cost and the slow work of learning to turn some of that care inward at last.