Like many children, I grew up with an abusive father. He was the result of generational trauma that went unchallenged and unhealed. No one taught him how to face his demons, and so he continued the cycle of abuse with my brothers and me. My childhood was so painful that as an adult I distanced myself from it. I categorized all of my childhood as “bad” for many years- and buried my childhood memories in a part of myself that…