Dear Cindy,
In this upcoming week, I am taking time off from work, family, and my usual daily life. I don't know what the week will look like, what I will do, or where I will be. I am making no plans. Not anticipating results. I hope that this break will give me the freedom to just be with what is. To be with the anxiety that arises from being alone. The shame of not working towards doing or being something 'better.' To not latch onto some kind of busywork in order to distract myself. To sit with trauma and to reconcile its truths. To dissociate my identity from what I do or who I relate to. To seek community. To openly want love and closeness. To exercise my friendship in asking that you support me - that in sending you this message today, I make this request: if and when I am in need during this week, may it come in the form of a phone call or a few hours of company or even to sit with my emotional landscape, that you can be open to just Be with me. If you have any objections to this or have limits that you want acknowledged, please tell me. You're on my list of Support.
Much thanks,
Cindy
No comments:
Post a Comment