LIVED THROUGH THIS

The Power and Purpose of Sharing Our Stories

Silence doesn’t serve us

Mindy Stern
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJul 10, 2022
shutterstock

Okay well, in retrospect, the bottle of pills, the tablets of Tylenol poured out on the yellow formica kitchen table, swallowed slowly, methodically, one by one, was a little misguided. 16. So young, empty, so afraid. I wish I had words back then, that cold January day so long ago when I…

--

--

Mindy Stern
Human Parts

Screenwriter. Essayist. Wannabe Novelist. Adoptee. www.themindystern.com