What stood out to me here is the distinction between understanding and excusing. The essay doesn't ask the reader to deny the wound or pretend the pain wasn't real. Instead, it explores how a person can hold both truths at once: “this hurt me deeply” and “I can understand how it happened.”
That feels like a much more mature form of healing than either blame or forced forgiveness...
This piece is powerful. What I found most profound was the empathy and compassion discovered in the end for your parents. Most cannot get to that point over the course of their entire lives. This ability to see them as individuals, as well as parents, is a unique virtue.
My situation is different but I’ve learned a lot of myself the last weeks, too, while I was in a short hypnotherapy where I learned why I had begun to find anything about socializing and meetings anywhere from uncomfortable over physically stressful to confusingly ambivalent.
Beautiful
Thank you, Alex. Greatly appreciated ☺️
What stood out to me here is the distinction between understanding and excusing. The essay doesn't ask the reader to deny the wound or pretend the pain wasn't real. Instead, it explores how a person can hold both truths at once: “this hurt me deeply” and “I can understand how it happened.”
That feels like a much more mature form of healing than either blame or forced forgiveness...
This piece is powerful. What I found most profound was the empathy and compassion discovered in the end for your parents. Most cannot get to that point over the course of their entire lives. This ability to see them as individuals, as well as parents, is a unique virtue.
My situation is different but I’ve learned a lot of myself the last weeks, too, while I was in a short hypnotherapy where I learned why I had begun to find anything about socializing and meetings anywhere from uncomfortable over physically stressful to confusingly ambivalent.
I could not enjoy being me, fully seen.
Now that it’s clarified, I can explore a new way…
That's some heavy experiences to have at such a young age. Than you for sharing, it can't have been easy.