Between September 2020 and December 2024, Janneke Geurts (1969, the Netherlands) lived in Tirana, Albania, while her husband worked on an international assignment and their youngest daughter finished high school.

Fascinated by the history of the country and the personal stories of her new friends, she started to research the effects of collective, transgenerational trauma and the possibilities for healing in post-communist Albania. Being a psychologist, she noticed a lack in the knowledge and...