Words can hurt.  Words can heal.  Words can create profound and lasting changes, or humiliate and destroy us.  But they only have that power if we can feel.

A person with frozen emotions is not moved by language.  She hears the words, but they float around somewhere “out there”.  Syllables strung together, hardly meaningful.  Syllables like stones bouncing off a lake.

The closed self is like a lake covered in hardened steel.  Below the cold metal, nothing is alive, because nothing can breathe.  The deep soul within becomes static.  Locked in a cavern of darkness, unmoved, unmovable.

I have been this

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