healing

“The ancient Greeks had multiple words for love. Eros for passionate love, philia for affection, agape for selfless love... By naming different kinds of love, they could experience and discuss each one with greater clarity. In a way, having more words for love gave their expression, but also inner experience of love more shades and depth.” - we really do just throw big words around and never get on the same page about them. Like love

“Survivors of adversity often say that owning their narrative, being able to articulate what happened to them, helped them move forward“ - naming things is definitely hard but a form of acceptance, like calling it emotional abuse or CPTSD, it becomes this less scary looming thing