Surviving Skye

This is the second part of a longer conversation that I had with my mother, about Skye, her disappearance, and what it was like navigating the seemingly impossible.

I wanted to bring you into a personal conversation between my mother and I about Skye, the disappearance, and what everything else looks like on the periphery. 

It meanders through our disjointed memories, stalls on opinions, and drowns in our feelings. 

This is the first chapter in a 3 hour long conversation, pared down into more digestible episodes and edited minimally as to not disrupt the flow. 

This is your invitation inside.

Besides wanting answers to Skye's disappearance, I started to talk more openly about the event due to its dismantling effect on my mental health. In this episode I try to explain what it feels like living with this weight on your shoulders. Words can barely do it justice. It's an engrossing, all consuming life form that controls you from the inside out. So I share just a glimpse of what I can actually put into words.

Tokyo was a surreal experience. It was a city unlike anything I had ever seen before but I was also facing a situation I had never imagined I'd ever face in my lifetime. My sister Skye was missing in Japan and we had traveled to Tokyo to get media coverage. It was nothing but intense and life changing.

On Episode 2 of Surviving Skye, I break down the first few days of our time in Japan. Emotions are high and time is of the essence but the realities of what two American women can do while the Japanese authorities conduct their investigation becomes apparent and it seems all you can do is wait.