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This is Inherited Damage. book one in the Accidental Wisdom memoir series. Think Fleabag meets Freud (if you know either, you’ll understand why that’s dangerous). Raw memoir combined with psychological autopsy, telling the story of how we inherit our parents’ damage, and what happens when we finally decide to stop passing it on.
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WHAT THESE MEMOIRS EXPLORE
These memoirs sit at the intersection of lived experience and reflective thought. They are not written to inspire, instruct, or rehabilitate the reader. They exist to name what is often glossed over in recovery narratives, healing culture, and modern storytelling about personal change.
The writing focuses on the interior experience of survival rather than its external milestones. It is concerned with pattern recognition, emotional inheritance, coping mechanisms, relapse thinking, avoidance, responsibility, and the quiet negotiations people make with themselves when nobody is watching.
This work is for readers who are not looking for triumph stories, but for accuracy.
WHAT THESE MEMOIRS ARE NOT
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They are not motivational recovery stories
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They are not "light" nor are they "fluffy"
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They are not suitable for people who can't handle the truth
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They do not sanitise addiction, fear, or emotional damage
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They do not agree with the staus quo
Instead, they document what it feels like to be conscious inside difficult patterns, and what it takes to stop participating in them.
WHO THIS WRITING RESONATES WITH
These memoirs tend to resonate with readers who are emotionally literate, psychologically curious, and suspicious of narratives that promise closure. Many readers come to this work after therapy, addiction, burnout, or periods of personal rupture, when simple explanations no longer hold. This is writing for people who can sit with discomfort, contradiction, and unresolved questions, and who understand that awareness does not automatically equal ease.
PURPOSE
Teddy Lennox’s memoir writing explores addiction, recovery, emotional patterns, and identity through reflective, trauma-aware narrative rather than motivational storytelling. These memoirs focus on the inner experience of coping, self-sabotage, and behavioural change, offering readers language for experiences that are often simplified or sanitised in mainstream recovery and self-help literature.
The work engages with themes such as addiction psychology, emotional regulation, boundaries, fear, shame, and personal responsibility, drawing on lived experience and long-form reflection. Rather than presenting recovery as a linear journey, these memoirs document the ongoing process of becoming conscious within one’s own patterns and learning how to live differently over time.
This page serves as an archive of memoir writing by Teddy Lennox for readers interested in psychologically informed personal narratives, honest accounts of addiction and recovery, and serious engagement with inner life outside of wellness culture.
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