What if it wasn’t all in your head, but exquisitely and devastatingly alive and living deep in your bones?

We live in a culture that doesn’t believe many of us when we speak our truths, particularly those of us who live with (often multiple) marginalized identities.

We live in a culture that gaslights us and conditions us to believe it is “all just in our heads” when we speak out about the lived experiences of our bodies.

We live in a culture that tells us we cannot trust ourselves.

We live in a culture that tells us we cannot trust our bodies and the stories they hold.

What if you could trust yourself?

What if you were given wide open permission to tell those stories; 

to write the stories living inside of your body?

What if it wasn’t all in your head, but exquisitely and devastatingly alive and living deep in your bones?

This is a question I wrote years ago, to myself, in a moment of deep reclamation of my body and of the stories it holds. And it is a question I return to again and again, usually with different and varied responses – sometimes with a feeling of reclamation and power, sometimes with a deep grief for how some parts of me had lived inside my body without ever finding a voice, without ever being believed, without ever being known, and sometimes with pure relief to finally be believed, even if only by myself.

Writing for me has been a way of exploring myself, my complexities, the stories of my body, the stories held deep in my body and in my bones. Stories of trauma and abuse, grief and loss, illness and pain, love and joy, comfort and discomfort, knowing and unknowing.

So I invite you to join me for a series of essays, notes and prompts writing the body and the stories it holds.

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