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Journal

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A room with a decorative door

A relationship structure that cannot account for exit is not consensual in any serious political sense. It may be consensual in the narrow legalistic sense. It may satisfy the workshop definition. It may have agreements, check-ins, shared language, color-coded calendars, and a truly demonic number of acronyms. But if the least secure person cannot leave without losing shelter, community, and reputation, the structure is not free. It is a room with a decorative door.

Source: Your Polycule is Not a Revolution by Tara Knight

On letting go of items

In the end, I decided to let it go, because who in the world would understand its meaning once I was gone?

Source: How to Practice by Ann Patchett

The nature of early experience

In this context, healing doesn’t mean correcting the past. And it doesn’t mean crafting a version of yourself somehow untouched by your unresolved history. To envision that form of recovery is to misconstrue the nature of early experience: it’s not something we outgrow but is something we grow through and from. The traces left behind are structural.

Source: Being small by Tom Wooldridge

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