aka, several reasons I almost didn’t start this writing project, and sometimes I’m still not sure. Each of these is a “shadow” voice that’s really trying to protect 5-year-old me, who’s saying: But actually, in a way… So, while this post is one big disclaimer,…

You’re not good enoughyou don’t belong hereYou’re uselessyou’re exactly everything you fear These four horsemen have endlessly haunted meAnd brought their hundreds of cousins to the partySo comfortable rooting, rotting within my heartThese are lies, I know, or is it truth? I can’t tell them…