It was someone I was meant to be for the world. As if this vision was something gifted to me, intended to accompany and mold me into a type of remedy that this world desperately needs. It may still feel as though I am a child, but perhaps this child is becoming what she needs most.

Forgiveness involves acceptance and putting an end to the circular wars that run through the violation. To let go of the story of what life should have been and refuse to remain trapped in the hoping for a comfortable, settled life. It is to wake up from our naivety and look for what visions we have inside us, for the needs that were not met, and... See more

As it turns out, life does not grant comfort, but continual transformation.

"I think we become whoever would have saved our younger self. " —Assia Grazioli

My longing for the grandmother, the one I have wished for my whole life, is met in this moment by some divine synchronicity. That morning, I had written in my journal about aching for her, for the safety, for the arms to hold me. And now, here was this stranger telling me— the grandmother was inside me.

“Imagine my surprise, sitting a full hour, in silent and irremediable fear of the world, to find the body forgetting its own fear the instant it opened and placed those unassuming hands on life's enduring pain, and the world, for one moment, closed its terrifying eyes in gratitude.

Saying,

"This is my body, I am found." —David Whyte