If you were raised in an emotionally unsupportive home, certain patterns don’t feel like coping mechanisms, they feel like personality—because you learned them before you knew there were other options

I was always a private person… or so I thought. I didn’t share much. I handled things on my own. I was fine in a crisis and hard to reach when I wasn’t. That was just my personality. Just how I was made. It took me a long time to understand that most of what […]