Johanna Sparrow

By Johanna Sparrow Therapeutic Relationship Fiction™   Awareness begins where inherited paths are questioned. From the moment a human is born, they are introduced to the human experience—not through choice, but through proximity. Love and safety may exist, but so do hate, abandonment, neglect, confusion, abuse, envy, jealousy, gaslighting, favoritism, manipulation, exclusion, and betrayal. And more often than not, these experiences come not from strangers, but from within the

By Johanna Sparrow From the Attachment Drama Healing Series™ Trauma does not always arrive loudly. Sometimes it arrives as loyalty. Sometimes as belonging. Sometimes as being “chosen.” In families shaped by unresolved pain, trauma often does not heal—it moves. When the Oldest Becomes the Container In many large families marked by scarcity, violence, or emotional neglect, the oldest girl is not raised—she is assigned . She becomes the holder of responsibility, silence, and en

By Johanna Sparrow From the Attachment Drama Healing Series™ Some people grow up watching their parents fight with words that cut, actions that bruise, and silence that wounds just as deeply. Others watch the slow collapse of a marriage—two adults trying to survive their own pain, unable to hold each other, and unaware of how much the children are absorbing in the background. Physical abuse in the home is not just an event. It becomes an emotional environment. A climate. A me

This is Part One of a three-part reflective story. Parts Two and Three continue the narrative after the initial loss. By Johanna Sparrow The house remembered her, even when people did not. Everyone agreed that the house belonged to her. She was seventy-four, her body worn by old injuries, her legs no longer reliable. The walls were familiar, the rooms arranged to fit her limitations. She did not leave much, because she could not. The world came to her instead. Her son lived t

Inspired by “The House She Never Left” By Johanna Sparrow This reflection expands the story first explored in The House She Never Left , examining what happens when a family’s version of truth begins to fracture. There are stories families tell themselves because the truth would break them. And then there are stories that collapse anyway. After the funeral, after the condolences, after the explanations had settled into something rehearsed, one family member couldn’t let it go