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Healing Through Stories
The Church Bathroom Was Not About the Funeral - The Split
Dissociation is the smartest thing your nervous system can do when it thinks the world is too dangerous to live in fully. You quickly master the skill of splitting your responses efficiently. You still must do things like...
B Bistak
4 days ago3 min read
Can't Feel Emotions but Not Numb
There is a feeling that many people carry their entire lives without ever having a word for it. It is not sadness. Sadness has weight and texture; and direction. It is not numbness. Numbness implies a turning off, a cessation. What this sensation is sits between and beneath both of those, a hollow awareness: the quiet, relentless knowing that emotional depth and genuine connection exist somewhere, just beyond reach.
B Bistak
Mar 44 min read
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