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Carolina's avatar

You and your message are a gift to us all. I want to engage in those conversations too, to listen, to help you spread this message of love and compassion, profoundly needed in our families and communities. I don't see any other way and I am deeply thankful there are people like you in my life, it makes me feel hopeful, inspired, and motivated.

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Jennifer Taylor's avatar

I cannot imagine the historical trauma that your family has endured and I’m grateful to hear your story. I’m so sorry that this was part of your history and for the suffering you and they have endured. I didn’t quite understand the mention of what a “child trauma therapist”would approve of but perhaps that is because I am a therapist myself. Regardless, I sense your longing to connect or reconnect to people in a way that used to feel possible and now feels impossible. I can relate and I think many people can. What I’ve come to understand is that allowing anyone to share our space, our time and our thoughts in the way you describe, requires both parties to come together with the same intention. Or it at least requires some goodwill. I can wish for connection with neighbors to hear and be heard but I also believe that if basic human decency cannot be established, then is a very loving act to then not engage with people, even if you love them. You can love people and hold goodwill for them, and also not have them in your life. Thank you again for sharing your story.

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