family
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The Roots pt. 1: Enmeshment
I came to my therapist with problems like extreme anxiety without a clear cause and outsized reactions to my family’s problems and opinions of me — something that had always been labeled in my as “being too sensitive.” It alarms me how common the experience I had was: a parent-ified daughter who was told to… Continue reading
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Love Continued

“But what is grief, if not love persevering?” For much of my life I’ve hated endings. I thought the most perfect ending to a book was, “See you tomorrow.” If life doesn’t go on and, more importantly, continue to be lovely, what’s the point of existing at all? Ah, to be so young again. My… Continue reading