# Janice Erlbaum \| Author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir

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## Pages
- [GIRLBOMB turns 20](https://janiceerlbaum.com/girlbomb-turns-20/)
- [About](https://janiceerlbaum.com/about/)
- [Contact](https://janiceerlbaum.com/contact/)
- [Not Writing About My Dead Mother](https://janiceerlbaum.com/not-writing-about-my-dead-mother/)
- [Home](https://janiceerlbaum.com/)

## Posts
- [14b\. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long\-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part Two](https://janiceerlbaum.com/2026/04/14b-the-monotonous-grinding-mechanics-of-long-term-talk-therapy-a-partial-summary-part-ii/): \<p\>For the seventeen years I worked with Judith, I thought therapy was like school\. You put in the hours to master the concepts, and then you passed the test\. Once you learned something, you knew it for life; you never backslid into ignorance\. You could build on your knowledge and attain new levels every year\.\</p\>
- [14a\. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long\-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part One](https://janiceerlbaum.com/2026/04/14-the-monotonous-grinding-mechanics-of-long-term-talk-therapy-a-partial-summary-part-i/): My therapist Judith and I argued for years over her calling my mother “psychotic\.”

\<p\>My mother, I maintained, was a fucked\-up person, but she wasn’t psychotic\. Judith never met my mother; she only knew what I said about her, and you can’t diagnose people you never met from someone else’s description\.\</p\>
- [13\. The Mother of My Mother is Her Enemy](https://janiceerlbaum.com/2026/04/13-the-mother-of-my-mother-is-her-enemy/): \<p\>My mother stressed it repeatedly throughout my childhood\. “I never want us to turn out like me and my mother\. I couldn’t stand my mother, she was nothing but a burden to me, and I never want you to feel that way about me\.”\</p\>
- [12\. Black Saturday](https://janiceerlbaum.com/2026/04/black-saturday/): \<p\>What do you do, on the day of your mother’s death, after you’ve called everyone who needs calling? Before you select a picture of her to post on social media with a quick RIP, so everybody knows what just happened to you, out of the blue, on a Saturday morning?\</p\>
- [11\. I have now written more than ten thousand words about not writing about my mother’s death](https://janiceerlbaum.com/2026/04/i-have-now-written-more-than-ten-thousand-words-about-not-writing-about-my-mothers-death/): \<p\>The paramedics refused to enter the home without hazmat suits
And I refuse to let it go\</p\>

## Portfolio
- [Hilary Gray reading poetry](https://janiceerlbaum.com/work/hilary-gray-reading-poetry/): GIRLBOMB 20th birthday party, April 11, 2026
- [Girl gang: Hilary Gray, Tia Schellstede, Anne Sussman](https://janiceerlbaum.com/work/hilary-gray-tia-schellstede-anne-sussman/)
- [Longtime friend Lucien Harriot, founder of Mechanism Digital and photographer behind many of these shots](https://janiceerlbaum.com/work/lucien-harriot-founder-of-mechanism-digital-and-photographer-behind-many-of-these-shots/): Lucien Harriot of Mechanism Digital at the party for Girlbomb's 20th birthday, April 11, 2026
- [Great friend Jennifer Dziura of Getbullish\.com](https://janiceerlbaum.com/work/dear-friend-jennifer-dziura-of-getbullish-com/): Dear friend Jennifer Dziura of Getbullish\.com at Girlbomb's 20th birthday party, April 11, 2026
- [Protesting at my own party](https://janiceerlbaum.com/work/protesting-at-my-own-party/): Me protesting at my own party for Girlbomb's 20th birthday, April 11, 2026

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- [girl bomb diaries](https://janiceerlbaum.com/category/girl-bomb-diaries/)
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