If they silenced your tears, you learned not to feel. If they ignored your fears, you learned not to speak. This is how children disappear while still present.
— Alex Elle
Suppressing emotions doesn’t make them vanish. It teaches children to vanish parts of themselves to survive environments that lack emotional safety.
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