Spreading kindness, one parentfriend at a time.
Control feels safer than vulnerability. It creates a fantasized sense of self-protection. If blame can be assigned outside the self, it no longer has to be felt within. People recruit others into identities, narratives, and roles that regulate their emotional discomfort. I’m refusing to tolerate or internalize the pressure to become the person other people need me to be when they’re triggered.
Each day you give your energy away and use the remnants to take care of yourself last. Yet, despite all that you give, you still feel like most days you're failing. Everything has compounded and just when you feel like you've met your breaking point, you find a way to manage. You're caught between knowing what happens if you keep going like this and the fear of what happens if you don’t. I see you.
Called to Parenthood 