Interview questions Grace is ready to dig into. Copy them, tweak them, or bring your own.
1Can you take me back to the moment you realised your relationship with your son was shifting in a way you didn’t fully understand yet?
2What does a normal day look like when you’re living without contact, but still thinking like a parent?
3When everything went quiet, what did you find yourself holding onto just to stay grounded?
4How did writing letters begin for you, and what did it give you that nothing else could at the time?
5There’s often this idea of “just be patient” in situations like this—what does that actually feel like over months or years?
6What changed in you when you stopped focusing on what you couldn’t control and started thinking about who you were becoming instead?
7How do you hold onto love for your child without letting the pain of the situation take over everything else?
8What have you learned about memory and storytelling when you’re trying to preserve a relationship that isn’t active day to day?
9For someone going through something similar, what’s one part of the experience that tends to catch people off guard?
10When you imagined a future where your child might one day hear your voice again, what felt most important for them to understand?