incestuous relationship lasting around 10 years. In her new book, Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction, Phillips says that some family members still hold her ...

Friends can always leave, but family doesn’t have that option. The people I surround myself with represent a beautiful tapestry of unique human relationships woven together by love, choice ...

That my friends are my family, my truest beloveds, each relationship a world of its own,” she writes in the title essay “First Love.” The collection stands out not just for its elegant ...