Skin as a Symbol: The Boundary That Holds Us Together
Skin is more than a physical boundary. This reflection explores how people-pleasing, emotional limits, and protecting our energy can shape healing from TSW and eczema.
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TSW Didn’t Destroy My Identity. It Excavated It.
I never knew who I was. Not in the way people say it when they’re young and still figuring themselves out. I mean something quieter than that. Something eerier. If you had asked me, before TSW, before the burning, before everything, I would have given you an answer. I would have told you what I…
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I Thought Sensitivity Was the Part of Me I Needed to Outgrow
A few months ago I learned something about myself that explained almost everything, and instead of relief, my first response was grief. It started simply. My husband and I were talking, the way we do, about how I have always been more sensitive. How I had been told this my whole life. How I had…