Emotionally Naked

Getting physically naked is easy enough to do. It can be done before complete strangers.

But getting emotionally and psychically naked in front of another, and being seen and appreciated and held as we are, bearing our soul, our fears and our traumas and our shames and our shadows … that’s intimacy.

And there is no limit to the depth of intimacy to be discovered, and uncovered, in that regard. No end to the number of times we could fall in love with the same person who dares to bear their soul to us, and ours to them.

And unless, and until, we dare to do that, down to our deepest core, exposing our everything… we will seek compensation in the shallows, and falsely call that “intimacy.”

Words by Dena Lynn

Art by Dena Lynn, ‘Lovers’ Dance”

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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