Author J Steven Osborne and I could be the same person. We’re obviously not. My misattributed story is very different. But we share the same entrepreneurial spirit and irreverence for rules and regulations. We have also experienced the emotional upheaval and grief from identity disruption generated by the late discovery that our dads were not our biological dads. Eventually, we both found a deeper definition of family (including that our dads were still our dads).
Steve weaves a compelling story about navigating his trauma to come out feeling whole. First, he acknowledges the trauma. You can’t fix what you can’t see. So, he seeks all the information he can gather. And he gets help where he can. (His wife and co-author, Becky, is a gift.) Then he embraces forgiveness . . . for himself, his mother, and others in his life. And finally, he shares his story with us, which is healing in itself.
This book will help others heal from similar trauma—or better understand the impact of misattributed trauma felt by others.
– Peter J. Boni, Author: Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins,and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination