“Developing your feeling takes time, especially if it has been systematically discouraged in you. There may be an initial layer of shock, numbness, or anger you have to move through before you can touch that backlog of grief. Sometimes if a person sees right into the heart of who you are, it can release the grief you’ve been unable to acknowledge yourself. It is like a pinprick in your heart that releases a flood of tears, because you know that what’s been reflected is true—and that you have been waiting to hear this truth for a long time.”
Toko-pa Turner, Excerpt From “Belonging” (belongingbook.com)
Artwork by
Boya Sun