Dear Diary, These days, I’m once again confronted with the idea that there’s a part of me, rooted in my earliest childhood, that has not felt loved, that has not felt accepted.The theory behind this would suggest that it’s what has driven me into painful and unsuccessful relationships—that I unconsciously feel unworthy, or perhaps that… [keep reading]
Dear Diary, I haven’t been closer to my deepest wound before: I’ve found another underlying emotion behind the pain and the crying, and that emotion resembles terror. It is an acute fear, but fear of what exactly? Funny thing, when I felt it, it’s like I forgot to ask myself about it, as though it… [keep reading]
Dear Diary, I feel like reflecting on this today…Once, as a very young man, I went through a deeply painful experience. It was a bad break-up, but that was just the trigger that caused a hidden trauma to resurface—or at least, this has been my understanding over the years.The strangest part was that at the… [keep reading]