A Sister’s Salve (forthcoming in No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, Catapult, April 2026)

How do you navigate the tension between siblings when one is estranged from a parent and the other is not? How do you hold firm boundaries while protecting the relationship that matters most? In this essay, I explore the complexities of estrangement, religion, and self-compassion — and the inner battle between self-preservation, belief in God, and societal expectation.