Recently, I listened to an Oprah conversation about family estrangement — the quiet, aching kind that so many families carry silently. She spoke about the loneliness of it, the confusion, the hope, and the unexpected ways people sometimes find their way back to one another. Her words stirred something deep in me, because I know that path. I’ve walked it tenderly, and I’ve healed from it. In April of 2022, my relationship with both of my children went silent. What followed wer