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Gennady Aygi, from The Sunday Poem; “Silence” (translated by Sarah Valentine)

Text ID: to grow accustomed to silence / like the beating of one’s heart

{Cero Umano}, photograph by Gorche

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

Someone said, “The reason you isolate when you’re struggling is because you were left alone as a child to deal with your emotions” and I felt that.

A cemetery of thoughts, dreams and emotions and i'm still digging....

- Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“People with borderline personality disorder (and those like them) are like people with third-degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement”.

There’s power in telling yourself ”no we don’t do that anymore” in response to self destructive urges.

I don't feel like myself anymore