the Childless mother dismantles the illusion of legacy. T.D. Montena pulls readers through the gut-wrenching truth of what happens when women are forced to mother from trauma, imprinting pain rather than protection. Abandonment, silence, shame, each became law until one woman refused to obey.
This memoir is not a cry for healing. It is the sound of rupture. Of choosing clarity over loyalty. Of naming dysfunction even when it wears the face of family. Raised by women who inherited survival, Montena faced the devastating price of choosing wholeness, estrangement, judgment, and the unspoken grief of children lost not to death, but to generational consequence.
Her story is visceral, deliberate, and unrepentant. It offers no bow-wrapped conclusion, only the fierce insistence that liberation is earned. For those who mother in the shadows of broken blueprints, the Childless mother is not a guide. It is a fire.