No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.
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deep privilege of belonging, and the way belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level.
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The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
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But believing something is true, even with all your heart, is unrelated to whether or not what you believe is true. While there are some things from which you never heal, so be it. The truth about healing is that you don’t need to heal to be whole. By whole, I mean damaged, missing pieces of who you were, your heart—missing what feels like some of
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That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more