DAMMMMNNN. Was just talking with a mentor today about a recent realization, that I struggle with a sense of having been sacrificed as a child. And then you drop this a few hours later! Thank you! Truly meaningful and powerful.
So brilliant. Emotional incest confused me about which feelings were mine and which were my mother's. Part of the purpose of abuse is to make someone else a storage container for your unbearable feelings. So the victim is holding the perpetrator's shame as if it were their own. (In addition to everything else you described.) As a person of Jewish heritage, I am so angry and sad at how Israel and its supporters are re-enacting our historical trauma.
Wow, yet again you put words to something that feels impossible to describe. I have spent so much of therapy talking about how I see myself as an object, which has made me feel so much shame for internalizing that message. Thank you for the reminder that my experience is not unique and that CSA inherently instills that message. Thank you for yet again helping me feel a sense of belonging through your work.
This piece was incredible. I also just came out of an advanced screening of The Chronology of Water in Toronto and I am so looking forward to you seeing it and sharing your thoughts on it with your audience.
This piece made me a paid subscriber. Well done.
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DAMMMMNNN. Was just talking with a mentor today about a recent realization, that I struggle with a sense of having been sacrificed as a child. And then you drop this a few hours later! Thank you! Truly meaningful and powerful.
So brilliant. Emotional incest confused me about which feelings were mine and which were my mother's. Part of the purpose of abuse is to make someone else a storage container for your unbearable feelings. So the victim is holding the perpetrator's shame as if it were their own. (In addition to everything else you described.) As a person of Jewish heritage, I am so angry and sad at how Israel and its supporters are re-enacting our historical trauma.
Wow, yet again you put words to something that feels impossible to describe. I have spent so much of therapy talking about how I see myself as an object, which has made me feel so much shame for internalizing that message. Thank you for the reminder that my experience is not unique and that CSA inherently instills that message. Thank you for yet again helping me feel a sense of belonging through your work.
Incredible work, thank you.
This piece was incredible. I also just came out of an advanced screening of The Chronology of Water in Toronto and I am so looking forward to you seeing it and sharing your thoughts on it with your audience.