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In this compelling series of short stories, Marie Therese Bolden moves effortlessly from her account of experiencing sexual assault as a young girl in Sweet Naïveté to the sophistication and poise of a modern woman reflecting on her life, exploring an incident of her mother’s domestic abuse and her father’s philandering in A Father’s Legacy. In Sisters, she examines ubiquitous themes and the complexities of sibling relationships, as well as the role gender plays in family dynamics. Intertwining her story of heartbreaking, somatic grief following the sudden death of her twin brother in Tomorrow, each tale explores universal themes, culminating in triumph over adversity and as a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Marie Therese Bolden is an author, screenwriter, producer, coach, mentor, and cultural commentator. She is the creator and host of the YouTube Food for Therapy Podcast show, which combines her training in psychotherapy and counselling and experience in coaching, mentoring, and metaphysics with her passions for food, hosting, and culture. In 2024, Marie Therese Bolden contributed to a TEDed discussion lesson for the XQ-SLESS Tribe: Your Excuses Are Holding You Back: Break Free by Martin Conboy. She has published in several anthologies, including The Honoured Poets of 1998 and The Liquid Mirror Anthology in 2000. Her autobiography, Sex, Spirit and the Soul of Therapy, published in 2009, recounts her life, starting with her tumultuous childhood growing up in a home with domestic violence with a father who suffered from psychiatric illnesses. Marie Therese talks candidly about her journey through twenty years of psychoanalysis and healing from her trauma and pathological grief following her mother’s death.