Love Note to People in Pain

Love note to people in painYour pain is welcome here. You matter and your pain matters. Whatever size your body is, there is room for it here. There is space for all of your genders. No matter how much you need, there is room for you: all of you.Your wounds, however deep and wide.Your big feelings, all of your feelings, even the ones that are hidden even to you, matter here.Your perceived deficits. Your sensitivities and insecurities.Your deviance.Your depression, your anxiety, your mania. Your OCD.Your failures and your fears.Your abandonment. Your needs, met and unmet. Your deep shame.Even your self-hatred is welcome here.Your judgment and criticismYour trauma, your despair, your anguishThe agony of all the ways that you have been violated.All of the ways you have been talked down to, made to feel small.All of the injured places where you did not receive the love you wanted and needed.All of the ways you come up short.Your hunger is OK here.Your desperation,Your attempts to get filled up.Your betrayal and feeling betrayed.Your desperation to be seen, your longing to be understood.All of your doubt, and second-guessing, and scrutinizing and ridiculing of yourselfThere is a place for it all here.Your compulsions, your feelings of being both out of control and controlling.Your overwhelm, confusion, your sense of defeat.All of your crazy, every bit of it.Your shadowy places, all of your disgusting parts. The excruciating moments, the despicable in youYour ugliness. Your dark side.Your fits and your tantrums. Your immaturity, your shallowness, your superficiality.Your fakeness. Your dark thoughts, your unruly feelings, your meannessYour vengefulness, your desire for others to hurt the way you hurtYour rage, your viciousness, your turmoilAll of your terrible decisionsAnd choices. All of your regretsAll of your punishing thoughts and self-punishingAll of your recklessness, all of your uncertaintyAll of the places you hurt.You are not an aberration. You are not to blame. Your suffering matters; your suffering is legitimate. You are not a mistake or a problem. It's OK to be broken; it is OK to never "heal"Or get "better."