Don't mind me

I need to pull myself together in a very very very kind way

healing my inner young girl is such heart wrenching back breaking work and no one is more worthy of it than her

i just think that, most of the time, you really do need to teach people how to love you. and equally, you need to be taught how to love others. this can feel scary and hard and even like a failure, especially if you're approaching a relationship with trauma - shouldn't it be easy to love me? yeah ofc. but love is an act of translation between people across experience, geography, culture, memory. it's constant, purposeful translation. and though it can be hard, there is real joy to be found in the teaching and learning of love.

When you lose an emotional attachment to someone, you realize how ordinary they are. It's your love and your energy that makes people seem so special.