About — Melanie Campbell

“The question of who I was lurked in the background of my life. It made me doubt my path, and for years I didn’t know the way forward because I didn’t know what was really behind me. The pictures I held in my hand felt like the first honest thing in my life. This was it.”

In this poignant, heartfelt story, Melanie shares with us her experiences being raised by a mother who tried her best, and who was so desperate for love, but was also ravaged by her own demons. Alcoholism, an eating disorder, agoraphobia, depression, anxiety. Melanie witnessed her Mom struggle to stay alive.

All the while sensing something still terribly amiss about her past, Melanie paints this portrait of a life she never had, but finds gratitude in the one she’s living. She finds forgiveness and makes peace with her Mom’s mistakes and forges a life she never imagined for herself.