my therapist has gone to great lengths helping me understand boundaries, safe places and working through adverse child traumas that undermine healthly interpersonal relationships; the infusion of trust into our therapy sessions has helped me validate those missing connections that were burning/painful inside my body-mind; the intimacy generated in my work to find wellness needs a focal point, a focus to build those connections. in that way, my therapist has equipped and educated me on a spectrum of self-directed intimacy with my own internal fragments that were initially manipulated by my birth-mother.