What I learned after pulling back from frantic socializing
I spent years desperately seeking a tribe because I felt empty and incomplete. When I took a break from trying to make friends, I met a part of me I'd been neglecting.
Lately, I’ve found it difficult to post here, because I’ve been deep in a process of trying to understand my patterns around interpersonal relationships.
The whole purpose of Grounded Glow -- the reason I created this newsletter -- is to vulnerably share my personal experience of “thriving after trauma by focusing on authenticity, connection, joy, nourishment & openness.”
Yet, for the past few weeks, every time I’ve started to write a post, it turned into a long rant about “Here’s how badly people have treated me in the past.” And so I would stop myself mid-essay, and delete it. Because I don’t want this newsletter to be focused on victimhood. I doubt tales of victimhood are that interesting to my readers, plus I also just don’t want to be in that energy anymore.
“You’re stuck in wounded inner child mode!” a former friend screamed at me on the phone, in what would be our last conversation.
Her tirade came after I’d gently told her that …