Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection

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I think now is a time that I was actually ready to use that story, but then also intertwine it with a lot of the other lessons I’ve learned in the past few years, especially being in community, actually living instead of just theorizing my experiences, actually being really present in them, going to monasteries and being on dance floors with my queer families or going through my intergenerational healing process with my mother. be not afraid of love' really encouraged me to honor all of my feelings (discarding the idea of "good" vs.

Not only are they telling me how to react to dangerous situations but they are also affirming that I am deserving of abundance and safety. Zhu’s candid storytelling, both/ands and all, underscores an uncomfortable but deeply human truth: Healing from abuse is a complicated, nonlinear process . I do not seem romance as a desperate distraction like I used to, though my heart is wide open to the arrival of romantic love as a blessing in my life. Uma mensagem por e-mail será enviada antes do término do período gratuito, que pode ser cancelado a qualquer momento. Binaries create fragmentations and opposing forces, and do not regard joy, sadness, life, and death as intrinsic to the wholeness and balance of being.

The message of the book is clear in the title itself, as Zhu weaves together memoir and reflection on a range of topics, including grief, intimacy, anxiety, PTSD, romance, and vulnerability, that all relate back to the central theme of love. Similarly, if I have a level of accountability, there's like this mutual willingness to keep trying, then I don't believe that people should be cut off that easily.

She holds it close to her chest, this cup, and she says, "As a kid, whenever I felt incredibly angry or sad, I'd imagine this mug, warm and all, so close to my chest and everything would feel a bit calmer. I consider my own bodily instincts and how my biological and psychological survival mechanisms endeavour to protect me. Between Zhu’s soothing messages and lush, gradient-adorned visual aesthetic, it’s easy to see why they’ve amassed more than 100,000 followers on Instagram. a lot of the things they wrote really resonated with me and were things that i really connected to because i had also had similar thoughts. Don’t be afraid to allow love to strengthen your heart, over and over, before and during and even after pain.

They were projections used to invoke fear in my spirit, and at the same time were reflections of the fear that lived in X’s heart. Twenty scattered pieces of paper surrounded me in a circle, and I read each of them out loud, burning them one by one. I first met Mimi Zhu last year in the backyard of a gay club; it was summertime and their hair was fading from a rosy peach to light blonde, the dark roots of their natural hair beginning to push through. this was everything i’ve needed since i was a teenager, and i am so grateful to Mimi Zhu for their willingness to share their brilliance and vulnerability with us. It is clear to me that my sudden movements are perceived by him as a threat, and that it will take him some time to trust me.