Advance Praise for Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy
“For years I’ve been a big fan of Sacha Mardou’s pithy cartoons, and honored that many have been centered around aspects of the model of therapy I developed called Internal Family Systems. Reading this amazing book, however, brought my appreciation of her and her work to a new level.
This is the best — most honest and disclosive — book on psychotherapy and healing that I have ever read! I wept through much of it, and felt so much love and respect for her as she shared, with wonderfully evocative illustrations, the details of her turbulent childhood and her journey of reconnection with her many wounded and protective parts and her mother.
You will cry too as you identify with so many of her struggles and, as she finds and listens in a new way to her parts, you will do the same with comparable parts of you.”
Richard Schwartz,
Founder of IFS and author of No Bad Parts
About the Author
Sacha Mardou was born in Macclesfield in 1975 and grew up in Manchester, England. She began making comics after getting her BA in English Literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter. Her critically acclaimed graphic novel series, Sky in Stereo was named an outstanding comic of 2015 by the Village Voice and shortlisted for the 2016 Slate Studio Prize.
Since 2019 she has been making comics about therapy and healing. Her graphic memoir Past Tense: Facing family Secrets and Finding myself in Therapy published by Avery/Penguin USA is out now. Since 2005 she has lived in St Louis, Missouri with her cartoonist husband Ted May, their daughter and two disruptive cats.
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