Beginning with the End

“A brave, candid, moving and very well-written memoir of Mary Rockefeller Morgan’s life struggle with ‘twin loss’ after the tragic disappearance fifty years ago off the New Guinea coast of her twin brother Michael.”

--Bestselling author Peter Matthiessen

“BEGINNING WITH THE END is a moving, heart-breaking and ultimately gratifying account of one woman's overwhelming loss, struggle and resolution tied to the mysterious disappearance of her twin brother. The loss of a twin has been largely overlooked by the psychological and medical community, but this captivating narrative gives the subject the care and attention it so rightly deserves.”

--Dr. Nancy L. Segal, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton and author of “Someone Else’s Twin”

“Mary R. Morgan’s book is a Gift of the Soul, not only for the twinless twins of the world, but for all of us who search for the answer to the universal question of “Who Am I?” Read it. Admire her and then begin your own search.”

--Darcie D. Sims, PhD, CHT, CT, GMS, Director of The American Grief Academy.Ò

“In this very moving memoir, Mary R. Morgan shares the deep loss she felt at the disappearance of her twin and the story of her unique healing journey. This book will be equally valuable to lone twins and psychotherapists. It shows the risks involved when mourning is inhibited and the vital importance of therapists appropriately exposing their vulnerability.”

--Joan Woodward, Psychotherapist and Founder of The Lone Twin Network, UK and author of “The Lone Twin: Understanding Twin Bereavement and Loss”

“For anyone who has loved another deeply and lost them to death, this book is a boon, showing one person's emergence from pain too great to bear. For any of us who is a twin and lost their beloved sibling to death, this book is a necessity, showing the dangerous but possible passage from the intimacy of a shared womb to the forever wrenching apart of a separating death. With discretion and taste, the reader is taken into Morgan's life story and the hard-won miracle of letting the beloved twin go into his own freedom, and the surviving twin move into the completeness of her own life. This book reaches deep into the psyche and illuminates the soul.”

--Ann Belford Ulanov, M.Div., Ph.D., L. H. D. Christiane Brooks Johnson Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Religion Union Theological Seminary. Jungian Analyst in private practice and author of “The Unshuttered Heart: Opening to Aliveness and Deadness in the Self”

“Mary R. Morgan is a gifted psychotherapist, a courageous explorer of the unconscious and a master story teller. The story she tells us begins 50 years ago with the sudden death of Michael, her twin. In BEGINNING WITH THE END she takes us with her as fellow travellers as she discovers the power to heal that is part of our common birthright as human beings. By sharing her personal journey as well as her experience as a therapist to many others, she helps us all to trust the world we cannot see and the natural tides of healing which can ultimately free us and carry us home. BEGINNING WITH THE END is an exquisitely written book about the Mystery of healing and the Mystery of twinship. Be prepared for this book to make you less afraid of loss and of life.”

--Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Founder and Director of the Institute For The Study Of Health And Illness at Commonweal and author of “Kitchen Table Wisdom,” and“My Grandfather’s Blessings”