Expelled From the Garden: How Being in the Here and Now Made Life Hell

What a plural family/system of nine experienced when therapy made the outside world too continuously present—and what one twelve-year-old boy is teaching his father about finding his way home.

Dad’s Here

Solis looked up from the phone and, for a moment, the physical world became overwhelmingly concrete. We call it a terror peek. On a day when we asked a therapist for help, it brought us back to one of the most important questions in our family: Where is the adult? Dad’s here.