🪷Their Bleeding Inner Wounds

message to my younger self, on codependency and boundaries

You dash around your loved ones' wounded hearts,
hoping to staunch their spills of blood in time--

but your bandages can't mend their inner harm,
and meanwhile you are burning out your light.

Stop.

No amount of self-abandonment
on your part can heal their woundedness.

The best way you can love them is to tend
yourself and what's on your side of the fence.

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4 year old (and her band-aids!) petting the bunnies we recently added to our menagerie. 😆

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In the notebook

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