Sydney Soleta

why some conversations rearrange your brain -how the right questions unlock hidden selves https://open.substack.com/pub/velvetnoise/p/why-some-conversations-rearrange?r=gjmjh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

“Between Karlsson’s shaping and the reality of our becoming lies the quiet work of intimacy: to hold someone so they can grow into the silhouette your love sketches for them, and to feel your own edges soften and bend beneath the steady pressure of their gaze”

To love is to let yourself be remade. To become someone else, not because you were incomplete, but because there are parts of you still waiting to be made real in the presence of another. And when you love someone like that, you offer them the same possibility: to explore their hidden selves and latent worlds, and to find, in your gaze, a home for

Some parts of you only emerge for certain people: This is why the right gaze, the right conversation, can change you down to the grain. Emotional heat loosens the architecture of the self, and in the presence of someone who sees you vividly, the molten structure reforms around their image of you. What remains afterwards is stronger, different,

Relationships are co-evolutionary loops https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/making-a-home-together

“One of the Shavano Principles of Spiritual Activism is, "Do not insulate yourself from the pain of the world." The text reads, "When we open ourselves to the pain of the world, we become the medicine that heals the world." Writing this book I discovered that being a therapist is less about making a living and more about living my life. Simply put,