This article explores self-directed harm not as pathology, but as the internalized echo of abuse. Only through listening to this echo closely can we understand why healing is not about ‘fixing’ something broken, but about learning to speak in a different tongue rather than the language of pain that has been handed over to us.
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What We Wish They Saw – The Pain That Should be Clear as Glass
For us, it’s always the loudest pain carried with the front of a silent serenity on our shoulders. However, as the glass child, we are often overlooked, yet expected to be the strong ones, the caregivers, or the glue holding everything together. However, when we let our pain show, we are often deemed to be “too much”.