my therapist told me this and it hit me: “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace."
your mom prints out a small book’s worth of pages from mapquest and appoints you as “the navigator”. you sit in passenger seat with said stack of pages in your lap. this is the most stressful job you will ever have
btw if there was a photo of me out there that looked like this you’d never be able to tell me shit again. my head would be so big I wouldn’t fit thru the door