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Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and podcaster whose work has been featured in The Rumpus, The Atlantic, The Iowa Review, Writer\u2019s Digest, The Washington Post, HuffPost, and The New York Times among others. Her stories and essays have been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net and she is author of When She Comes Back, a memoir about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation. Her short story collection Home Is A Made-Up Place won Hidden River Arts\u2019 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022.\nI met Ronit at an event a couple months ago and had an immediate connection with her.\xa0\xa0As I\u2019ve read her book, When She Comes Back, I feel like we are long lost sisters at times.\xa0\xa0While we had different experiences growing up, we both had parents who abandoned us, creating this void of confusion in our lives that left us constantly questioning how to take up space.\xa0\nIf you\u2019ve watched the docuseries Wild, Wild Country, some of Ronit\u2019s story will be familiar, as the cult featured in the docuseries is the cult her mother joined.\xa0\nListen in to hear Ronit share:\n\nHer experience of being born on a kibbutz in Israel and living separately from her parents as a baby and toddler\n\nThe effects of her mom leaving her and her little sister to follow a guru\n\nHow she maintained a relationship with her mom in spite of being repeatedly abandoning her\n\nThe challenge and conflicting emotions of having her mom be close to her after her daughter was born\n\nWhat it\u2019s been like for her to mother after not having a mother role model\n\nThe difference between the vulnerabilities we choose to share and those we must carry\n\nHow knowing someone\u2019s story creates space for compassion in spaces where compassion might not otherwise exist\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nGet my newsletter to be notified of our 2022 Plan & Prep Pajama Party\n\n\nConnect with Ronit and get the book: Ronit Plank\n\n\nIG/Twitter: @ronitplank\xa0\n\nThank you to our sponsor:\nEvite: Head over to\xa0Evite\xa0to choose from\xa0thousands\xa0of design options to create and send invitations for free.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices