In 2021, mother, writer and yoga instructor Linda Geraghty was featured in the stirring and critically acclaimed documentary "Our American Family." The project, which was filmed over the course of a year inside Linda’s family home in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, documents the family experience as Nicole, Linda’s adult daughter, begins a journey of recovery from heroin addiction.
For Linda, writing was the lifeline that helped her make sense of her complicated childhood with a mother who suffered from anorexia, and it helped her process her adult life dealing with a spouse and children with substance-abuse disorders. Today, writing is the light that helps Linda unravel and make peace with her family’s generational battle with addiction.
This week on the Mighty Writers Podcast, host Maureen Boland sits down with Linda to discuss life after the documentary, writing toward generational healing, and the practice of letting go.
The New York Times
"Addiction is a complex, challenging topic, and Our American Family, in its sharp specificity, handles it with grace."
Psychology Today
"Our American Family beautifully reveals how the process of recovery, for an individual and a family, happens by growing self-awareness, self-assertion, and self-determination."
Go Indie Now
"Sometimes you just don’t know how much a movie really strikes you or impacts you until you sit with it. That’s the real power of this movie here. It doesn’t hold its punches, it feels as raw and courageous as its subjects..."