As a writer I'm lost for words. It's never been so challenging for me to comment on a post. I'm leaving here emotional. Very well written! It's not nearly enough but it's all I can honestly manage. I felt this in my soul!
"He writes that what hurts most isn’t the trauma itself—but the absence of a compassionate witness to that trauma."
This. This. This. And the times I am so grateful after a two hour massage that I offer profound thanks to my massage therapist, and she reaches out to squeeze my hand? That. Just that simple act. I life in such a different space, neurodivergent in a different way. Culturally not in any normal space, but in a space where Mandarin is my "comfort zone." And where my place in the comminity is such that I couldn't consider your path, but where a two hour massage to unblock qi meridians, and where some of those meridians awaken things I wish I could silence.
Just a simple squeeze of the hand. Yeah, I get it. Different circumstances from you. But. I get it.
Thanks so much for commenting again, Christopher 🙏🏽
It is a saddening reality for sure, but such a simple gesture can stretch so far in a world mostly devoid of simple connection—let alone the deepest of forms.
If interested, I'll be releasing a few podcast episodes in the future speaking viscerally about what it felt like in the moment.
As a writer I'm lost for words. It's never been so challenging for me to comment on a post. I'm leaving here emotional. Very well written! It's not nearly enough but it's all I can honestly manage. I felt this in my soul!
"He writes that what hurts most isn’t the trauma itself—but the absence of a compassionate witness to that trauma."
This. This. This. And the times I am so grateful after a two hour massage that I offer profound thanks to my massage therapist, and she reaches out to squeeze my hand? That. Just that simple act. I life in such a different space, neurodivergent in a different way. Culturally not in any normal space, but in a space where Mandarin is my "comfort zone." And where my place in the comminity is such that I couldn't consider your path, but where a two hour massage to unblock qi meridians, and where some of those meridians awaken things I wish I could silence.
Just a simple squeeze of the hand. Yeah, I get it. Different circumstances from you. But. I get it.
Thanks so much for commenting again, Christopher 🙏🏽
It is a saddening reality for sure, but such a simple gesture can stretch so far in a world mostly devoid of simple connection—let alone the deepest of forms.
If interested, I'll be releasing a few podcast episodes in the future speaking viscerally about what it felt like in the moment.
Hi Tara, thanks for commenting. I am glad my piece moved you to your core.