Tanya Mosley

You then turned to science for answers, learning about different modes of therapeutic modalities and reading about neuroplasticity as a gateway to personal healing. What was it that made you go that route to actually try to understand the impacts of your childhood on your brain?

Thinking about inherited traits, you know, we often hear that addiction can be an inherited trait. Did you ever fear that you'd become an addict, knowing that your mother and your father were both addicts? I did. That maybe you had a gene or predisposition?

Thinking about inherited traits, you know, we often hear that addiction can be an inherited trait. Did you ever fear that you'd become an addict, knowing that your mother and your father were both addicts? I did. That maybe you had a gene or predisposition?

Thinking about inherited traits, you know, we often hear that addiction can be an inherited trait. Did you ever fear that you'd become an addict, knowing that your mother and your father were both addicts? I did. That maybe you had a gene or predisposition?

Tell me about your relationship with your parents. I'll start with your mother. I know after you graduated from high school, you went to a very high performing high school in Detroit, Renaissance High School, and then you went on to college at the University of Michigan. You did that virtually all on your own.

Tell me about your relationship with your parents. I'll start with your mother. I know after you graduated from high school, you went to a very high performing high school in Detroit, Renaissance High School, and then you went on to college at the University of Michigan. You did that virtually all on your own.

Tell me about your relationship with your parents. I'll start with your mother. I know after you graduated from high school, you went to a very high performing high school in Detroit, Renaissance High School, and then you went on to college at the University of Michigan. You did that virtually all on your own.

But your relationship with your mother, are you all in contact?

But your relationship with your mother, are you all in contact?

But your relationship with your mother, are you all in contact?

Let's take a short break. If you're just joining us, I'm talking with author Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making. We'll continue our conversation after a short break. This is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Let's take a short break. If you're just joining us, I'm talking with author Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making. We'll continue our conversation after a short break. This is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Let's take a short break. If you're just joining us, I'm talking with author Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making. We'll continue our conversation after a short break. This is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

And today I'm talking with Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making, which is a raw account of growing up in the 1980s and 90s in Detroit amid the crack cocaine epidemic. She writes about being raised in a home shaped by instability. Her father was absent and her mother struggled financially. with a severe drug addiction.

And today I'm talking with Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making, which is a raw account of growing up in the 1980s and 90s in Detroit amid the crack cocaine epidemic. She writes about being raised in a home shaped by instability. Her father was absent and her mother struggled financially. with a severe drug addiction.

And today I'm talking with Daria Burke about her new memoir of my own making, which is a raw account of growing up in the 1980s and 90s in Detroit amid the crack cocaine epidemic. She writes about being raised in a home shaped by instability. Her father was absent and her mother struggled financially. with a severe drug addiction.

The memoir traces her journey from that painful beginning through the years she spent trying to escape her past by building a carefully controlled, outwardly successful life as a marketing executive. Underneath the accomplishments and the appearances was a woman still carrying the weight of what she'd been through.

The memoir traces her journey from that painful beginning through the years she spent trying to escape her past by building a carefully controlled, outwardly successful life as a marketing executive. Underneath the accomplishments and the appearances was a woman still carrying the weight of what she'd been through.

The memoir traces her journey from that painful beginning through the years she spent trying to escape her past by building a carefully controlled, outwardly successful life as a marketing executive. Underneath the accomplishments and the appearances was a woman still carrying the weight of what she'd been through.

I want to ask you a little bit about your father because you did not grow up with him, but he does serve as a presence. You write about this moment when you're an adult and you're living your life and he has a health issue and you all have a phone conversation. That was one of the first real conversations you had ever had with him.