180: Grieving & Healing from Family Abuse - with Dr. Lisa Nikolidakis, Author of No One Crosses the Wolf

Dr. Lisa Nikolidakis holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and faculty advisor of P.R.I.D.E.. She writes nonfiction and fiction, returning often to themes of trauma, mental health, chronic illness, music, and nature. She also writes humor, mostly for survival.

Nikolidakis’s memoir, No One Crosses the Wolf, about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery is being published by Little A on September 1, 2022.

Her essay “Family Tradition” was selected by Jonathan Franzen for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2016. Other writing of hers has won various prizes and mentions.

Her aim is to help demystify the shame of trauma by continuing to write and speak publicly about it.

TW: sexual abuse, murder, and suicide

In this episode, Lisa shares the abuse and trauma she endured in her childhood and adulthood, losing her father to a a murder-suicide, her journey with healing and forgiveness, mourning an abuser, finding support in community and more.

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