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"Healing rarely comes without difficulty. It's painful at times and terrifying, too. It means letting go of narratives that hold you back and harm you. It means letting a part of yourself die so that another part of you can be reborn. Not everyone wants to get better. And that's okay. Some people have an identity tied to sickness.
Others fear true wellness because it is the unknown and the unknown is unpredictable." — Jul 30, 2026 06:46PM
"Healing rarely comes without difficulty. It's painful at times and terrifying, too. It means letting go of narratives that hold you back and harm you. It means letting a part of yourself die so that another part of you can be reborn. Not everyone wants to get better. And that's okay. Some people have an identity tied to sickness.
Others fear true wellness because it is the unknown and the unknown is unpredictable." — Jul 30, 2026 06:46PM
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"Aside from plays and entertainment, we are, in the end, wrestling with ourselves to settle the paradox of absence and presence. Where is the person I care about? Who am I now that they have left me? Who am I now that I am divorced, unemployed, broke? Who am I now that my loved one has a terminal illness? How many children do I tell people I have if one was stillborn or disappeared, or refuses to see me?" — Jul 24, 2026 12:33PM
"Aside from plays and entertainment, we are, in the end, wrestling with ourselves to settle the paradox of absence and presence. Where is the person I care about? Who am I now that they have left me? Who am I now that I am divorced, unemployed, broke? Who am I now that my loved one has a terminal illness? How many children do I tell people I have if one was stillborn or disappeared, or refuses to see me?" — Jul 24, 2026 12:33PM
“History,” he taught, “is his story – an event that happened sometime else to someone else. Memory is my story – something that happened to me and is part of who I am. History is information. Memory, by contrast, is about identity… History
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