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.
What Helped Me Through Eleven Years of Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW)
For eleven years, I lived inside the fire of Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) – a conditionthat strips the skin, body, and spirit raw.Some nights it was my skin burning and bleeding. Other nights it was my mind unraveling.At times it was the silence of being unseen.What helped me wasn’t one single cure or quick fix….
Learning to live inside it
by Nina Ajdin There was a morning recently when I woke up and couldn’t open my eyes properly. Not tired. Not groggy. Actually couldn’t open them. The skin around them had tightened overnight, crusted, swollen, the kind of thing that makes you understand, viscerally, what it means to be trapped inside your own body. I…
