#34 vulnerability - inhale, scream

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this is about internalized trauma responses

Water Lilies, Harmony in Blue by Claude Monet, 1917 Recently I’ve struggled with vulnerability, and this morning when I woke up I stayed in bed soaking in the sunlight from my apartment window before my best friend called. I was trying to make sense of it on the phone with her, “Why do we feel disgusting when we share a fact about ourselves?” I asked, after narrating a story about being haunted for weeks from conversations where I offered up an extra scooping of information about myself, and instantly felt white hot hate fill my body. I noticed it happen in my writing most of all, which is…

#34 vulnerability - inhale, scream

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