Mary Williams, Jane Fonda’s “Lost Daughter”, Finds Hope
Stillness Session®
Marlise: Mary you discovered that it’s possible to reconnect the fractured bonds from the past to bring you into that place of wholeness and more love. What was it like to reunite with your mother, your sister and your whole family? And what did you have to deal with to even make that decision?
Mary Williams: It took my 30 years to build up to it. It took those 30 years for me to get up the courage to make that journey back to Oakland. I would consider a trip to Mount Everest easier than going back to Oakland and sitting down with my birth mother after all that time and it was absolutely terrifying. I didn’t know how she would feel about me.
I wanted to go back with an open heart. I didn’t want to go back to fight, or bicker about what could have been. I wanted to go back as a whole person who had perspective. Because as a grown woman, I see that she was living in poverty, she had been abused and she suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder. She used alcohol to self-medicate, she had six children to take care of. When I was born she was 23 and I was her fifth child.
Marlise: And did Jane come with you?
Mary Williams: She came later. I finally saw my birth mother as a human being which is what she has always been, but we create monsters in our mind, you know. And then I wanted them to be together, both of my mothers, because both of them have given me important vital incredible gifts.
