Generations of women have gone before us, weighed down by a heaviness of secrecy. No one believed them. When a sacred boundary is crossed, uninvited and unannounced. The pain is so hot it sears through bone. It leaves us numb, cut off from our sensations, our breath, and our very selves.
If you have ever stood before a mirror and seen a reflection of someone who, hours before, was alive and free – now watching yourself from far away, as if witnessing another life altogether, you are not alone. This is the quiet language of dissociation. It is a drifting away from the body just to survive.
Naming the silence is the first step toward the long walk back to yourself. In Episode 95 Part 1 of Shame Out Loud, we begin the "Child and Woman" reading, a reckoning with myth and memory.
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