A Big Intimate Catch Up:

This means we’ve already processed that story with safe people in our lives (not using this audience as our therapy session!) and so can let go of any expectations of safety, validation, or reciprocity.

I’d been so angry with them for grabbing my pain from me in the wake of the News. But maybe my friends were loving me the best way they knew how, just like I was trying to love Amma. We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other’s pain. Maybe that’s