Beautiful Brianne. “You are still you” is something I didn’t expect in my earliest days of my chronic journey. I wish someone had been able to give me such a letter ❤️ to you and your friend.
Thank you, Michelle. I also wish I had had a friend to talk to back at the beginning. "You are still you." It's a strike-at-the-heart phrase even to me now. I think our identity is the thing that is most fearsome, most under attack. Who am I now?
I have a complicated relationship with Before Me, I do sometimes feel like she’s a frenemy because she lures me into situations she finds comfortable which blow my energy budgets. And yet, there is a through-line. Eventually we become more ourselves because we don’t have the energy to perform the socially acceptable roles we did purely for approval or because ‘that’s what you do’. But that’s a rollercoaster ride too.
Beautiful Brianne. “You are still you” is something I didn’t expect in my earliest days of my chronic journey. I wish someone had been able to give me such a letter ❤️ to you and your friend.
Thank you, Michelle. I also wish I had had a friend to talk to back at the beginning. "You are still you." It's a strike-at-the-heart phrase even to me now. I think our identity is the thing that is most fearsome, most under attack. Who am I now?
I have a complicated relationship with Before Me, I do sometimes feel like she’s a frenemy because she lures me into situations she finds comfortable which blow my energy budgets. And yet, there is a through-line. Eventually we become more ourselves because we don’t have the energy to perform the socially acceptable roles we did purely for approval or because ‘that’s what you do’. But that’s a rollercoaster ride too.