'Why Does Healing Have to Be So Lonely?'

It doesn't.

'Why Does Healing Have to Be So Lonely?' It doesn't. Heather Havrilesky Jul 11, 2022 140 41 Share Two Calla Lilies Together (1923) by Georgia O’Keeffe Dear Polly, I've been wanting to write this letter for a while now, so I figured I'd sit down and actually do it. I'm not even sure how to begin, so I'm just going to dive straight in and hope you can derive some logic from this emotional spiel of mine. I'm 24, but I feel about 40. From the moment I exited the womb, my life has been in one constant state of traumatic flux. Born into a family riddled with generational trauma and inertia (a produc

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