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Old Nov 15, 2021, 01:51 AM
KLL85 KLL85 is offline
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"I struggled to contain my emotion when I experienced hurt or betrayal. I didn't understand that my brain interpreted rejection as a threat to life and that it would respond with volatility and fear as if I were being eaten by a lion. I saw my frantic, amber zone outbursts of fight and flight as indicative only of my badness and madness, not as desperate attempts to feel safe in an eternally abandonning world."
Carolyn Spring is amazing isn’t she?! I read her work and feel like she has gone inside my head and put my feelings and thoughts on to paper.