You meet up with an old friend. They’ve become a medic. You started off with plans to have tea. That’s morphed into going to a pride parade. Children dance in the streets to the drag queens DJs and there smiles everywhere yet you know you are there to support your friends as they would treat…
Month: June 2022
Presence with a side of Waffles
6/18: You are so used to being self contained. You have spent years on inner work so that you do not have an immediate need to emotionally bleed onto close friends. You no longer consider trauma bonding the root basis of a relationship. Emotional intimacy, yes. Authenticity, yes. But trauma bonding of teens and twenties,…
You continue on
5/31/22: Since your return to Portland you have been told in so many ways that you have changed. Now at Soak, your regional, your old home, you’ve been told you are living your truth. You’ve been told that your energy is open. Upon seeing you several many offered a kiss on the neck when last…