It is always beautiful to learn that sharing my struggle to understand my trauma reaches other people & makes them feel seen or helps them process their own trauma.
It floors me every time. What an h...
My emotional sensitivity was supposed to get punished out of me.
That's so fucking infuriating when it is that sensitivity that allows me to reach other people by speaking about experiences that many people have but most don't know how to talk about.
That is my "gift". The greatest honor of my life is that my emotional honesty can help other people, so the thought that anyone—especially people I love as much as my parents—would try to take it from me is extremely painful.
That's so fucking infuriating when it is that sensitivity that allows me to reach other people by speaking about experiences that many people have but most don't know how to talk about.
That is my "gift". The greatest honor of my life is that my emotional honesty can help other people, so the thought that anyone—especially people I love as much as my parents—would try to take it from me is extremely painful.
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