My morning has oscillated between crying and a feeling of numbness. I have trauma-related pain issues that have flared up for the first time in months.
I think about myself pre-Trump, fresh with trauma and quietly dying in my own shame and isolation. I am not that person anymore.
More than any law that has been passed or policy that has been changed... this movement has created visibility and community for those of us who thought we might go to our grave bearing a shame that was never ours to carry.
I am at a point in my healing where I know I cannot succumb to such things, because I must be strong for others in my life who aren't there yet.
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