I know that open vulnerability and transparency may generate trust, because deep down we all know that we are broken in some way. That kind of connection can be generative, although it isn’t always. When it is generative, a shared brokenness or cracking, a common struggle become about mutual liberation and healing as much as anything personal. Both are changed, and indeed entire communities can be transformed as well by this kind of mutual work.
In this time, I have discovered lines and boundaries in my life that I could not cross, much to my surprise. I have found that things I have always believed about myself are utterly false. I have re-written parts of my personal narrative, pieces of my childhood and memory, that had seemed insurmountable in their pain, helpless searches for redemption now settled and grounded. Ties have been broken and re-forged, a new structure slowly building from deconstruction.
