"Every time Elizabeth Lamphere looked at her daughter, all she saw was her late fiancé. Ian had died in an avalanche while skiing in the Colorado backcountry when Madelyn was just a baby. The tragedy had plunged Lamphere into single parenthood, changing diapers, making meals, doing the bedtime routine all by herself, all while trying to bring in what money she could as a massage therapist."
"She struggled to find a place to live that felt like home: She moved with her daughter 15 times in just six years. By then, Lamphere was so stressed that she was smoking weed to get to sleep, and she knew that it was only a matter of time until Madelyn noticed how traumatized her mother was. Seeing pieces of Ian in her daughter's face could trigger "the most acute pain I've ever been in," Lamphere told me."
Elizabeth Lamphere became a single mother after her fiancé Ian died in a backcountry avalanche when their daughter Madelyn was a baby. The loss forced Lamphere to manage parenting and work alone while moving fifteen times in six years and relying on marijuana to sleep. Seeing Ian in her daughter's face produced intense pain, and longstanding childhood trauma compounded her symptoms. Psychiatrist Craig Heacock diagnosed her with PTSD and traced core trauma to a strict, volatile household and estrangement after premarital sex. Heacock encouraged her to apply to an MDMA-assisted PTSD clinical trial run by Lykos/MAPS PBC, and she was accepted after months of screening.
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