Something I want you to know about me is that I have a PHD in self-abandonment. I mean, not an official one from an esteemed university, but a lived experience that warrants a PHD. I have gone granular on self-abandonment, avoidance, and disconnection. I have studied and examined what it feels like to move away from yourself, drift away, run away, numb out, disappear, and make yourself invisible. I have been a master of it. I have been a servant of it. And I have been a fight

As humans, we are primed for connection. Connection with others, connection with our environment, connection with the world. The connection we have with ourselves is what will drive the quality of those external connections. The satisfaction, the authenticity, the depth, the love, the ability to take it all in, depends on our inner connection; our connection with ourselves. Yet, whilst we are primed for connection, the world we live in has led us to believe that in order to g