05/30/2022
The intimacy you’re craving is possible and most likely it’s already in your life…
Intimacy is a back and forth journey, into your own soul and that of another. It requires you to go on a scavenger hunt in some of your darkest places+ to reveal what you find to another.
It’s confronting. It’s being seen, known, and understood on a level many will never experience. Because being REALLY intimate is scary. But it’s not the actual intimacy we’re afraid of…quite the opposite.
We’re afraid of losing the connection, so instead of being really honest about ourselves and what we experience, we hide. Instead of moving towards the DEEP, fulfilling relationships we want, we turn and run the other way.
We have surface level conversations, remain polite and cordial, living up to the unaligned standards we didn’t even set… because that option creates less of a risk. But it’s draining, so draining, and while we’re wearing this mask and playing the part we start to disconnect from our truth even more.
We eat too much food, numb out with alcohol and drugs and sometimes we even hurt people. Not because we want to, but because we’re so afraid that they’ll leave, not love or accept us, or even shame us for being, well ourselves. So we keep hiding. In fear of not belonging.
But the truth is, we all experience this. We all have darker parts of us we’d rather not let others know about, but the fear of losing a surface level connection is keeping you from experiencing what you really crave.
The intimacy is already there. You already have it, you’re just still somehow making YOU wrong, which is causing you to stay closed off and guarded with the people you actually want to be closer to you.
You don’t need to change anything. You don’t need to read a book, switch careers, or find a “better” partner.
You just need to be real and reveal who you really are and claim what you really want. Because you know yourself, and they want to know you too, ALL of you. So bring it.
The more you reveal the deeper you get to go, and the deeper you go the better it gets.
so what part of you is hiding+ how can you start to love on it?