Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma And The Pathway To Mending Our Hearts And

My breathe was slightly paused as I read this...

2 reasons

1st ~ I am a Solitary Grey Witch

2nd ~ the 1st sentence not only speaks of what I am but actually contains my name.

🌙🌙🖤🌙🌙🖤🌙🌙🖤🌙🌙🖤🌙🌙🖤🌙🌙🌙

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“I fall in love myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me, with me.”

— Eartha Kitt, All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1982)

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them harder, detached and insensitive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them friendlier, more open and loud.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them paranoid and aggressive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them kinder, softer and more sensitive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them lose guilt, shame, or empathy.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them gain more guilt, shame, or empathy.

you are all valid.

“If someone makes you feel, let them.”

— Reyna Biddy (via quotefeeling)

““That’s the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.” - Arthur Japin, In Lucia’s Eyes”

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“When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million, empty words.”

— Thema Davis

“Don’t hang out with people who treat you as less than you are.”

— Unknown