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When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams

When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams

Some houses hold grief the way a cold room holds damp. Windward, the crumbling Cooper estate at the private end of Winthrop Island, is one of them. When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams opens on a funeral that is not quite a funeral, because there is no body to bury. Bud Cooper folded his clothes on the beach and walked into Long Island Sound a week before his estranged daughter was due to arrive, leaving Lucy to stand at the pulpit and try to eulogize a man who chased pirate gold his whole life and caught only debt. Lucy is a widow and a teacher, raising a small, ferociously composed daughter named Punkin who has spent her whole life in Paris and treats a New England funeral like a Chanel runway. The two of them arrive to settle the estate, and the estate has plans of its own. There is a mountain of unpaid bills. There is a stubborn local legend about a wounded pirate and a fortune in silver buried somewhere on the …

How to stop people-pleasing with author Beatriz Victoria Albina

How to stop people-pleasing with author Beatriz Victoria Albina

“I hear all the time — I’m 35, 45, 55, 65, 75 — and I have no idea who I am. I don’t know what I want, I don’t know what I need, I’ve only lived in a role. Good girl, good daughter, good wife, good employee, good grandma … who am I?” Beatriz Victoria Albina says of the thousands of women she’s specialized in serving for the last decade. “From there, we struggle to make decisions. We take on a therapist role in relationships, always listening, always supporting, always problem-solving, but we don’t get that support in return for so many reasons.” Shelf Help is a wellness column where we interview researchers, thinkers and writers about their latest books — all with the aim of learning how to live a more complete life. A certified somatic life coach, breathworker and former nurse practitioner, who resides in Brooklyn, Albina is the author of “End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits” (out in paperback this September), which educates readers on these phenomena …