if you're not owning your life, someone else is
To be seen... Beyond the facade. To have the essence of who we are, known to those we trust and hold dear. To be heard... Not only when we cry out, but also when we speak gently of the troubles in our heart.To be loved... For more than how we make others feel, but to [...]
And so it is...love and torture have always been stablemates.Sometimes, without warning, someone enters your life and challenges every assumption that you ever made about what's possible.What you thought you deserved was limited to what you were capable of achieving up to that point, and maybe just a quiet desire to acquire some peace beyond [...]
Sometimes that village is a family, sometimes it's a group, and sometimes it's just one person who represents everything that the village stands for.That child grows into the raging adult who destroys every wholesome thing, because they feel like no one deserves peace if they were denied love and acceptance.When you treat the vulnerable, or [...]