Was there ever a time you didn't recognize yourself?

Prompt 40 of The Prompted Memoir

Ponder a time in your life when you no longer recognized yourself.

Sometimes, when the intensity of transition, relational disruption, trauma, and/ or grief takes place, so does a separation of self. Often, this separation is a way of creating mental distance from the pain that is too difficult to process. This separation can feel like a dislocated shoul…