Author Reading with Mary Anne Totten

About the Book

Totten chronicles her journey through a childhood shaped by alcoholism, family dysfunction, and emotional isolation, exploring the winding road of forgiveness she finds herself on as an older adult. The narrative spans decades, tackling her struggles with parental abandonment, her mother’s alcoholism, and the silos of silence that defined her family’s communication.

Despite her difficult upbringing, Totten achieved a medical degree and went on to practice medicine for over forty years. In retirement, she became an interfaith spiritual chaplain, and eventually after decades of emotional estrangement, she was able to reach inner peace and reconciliation with her mother. She was able to break through the wall of non-communication and the demons of alcoholism to write Silos, Secrets, and Silence—a memoir of hard work, perseverance, courage, and determination.

About the Author

Mary Anne Totten, MD, is a retired physician who practiced primary care, endocrinology, and geriatrics in Boston, Massachusetts; Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Manchester, New Hampshire. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

After she retired from the practice of medicine in 2015, she was ordained as an interfaith spiritual minister by the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (ChIME). She currently volunteers in the Spiritual Care Department in her retirement community in Concord, New Hampshire. She has traveled around the world twice, has lived in eight different states, and visited forty-six of the fifty US states.

Mary Anne had to break through the wall of non-communication and the demons of alcoholism to write her memoir, Silos, Secrets, and Silence. This is a story of growing up in a family plagued by alcoholism and walking the road to forgiveness.

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