What do I want that threatens who I think I am? You might have spent your entire life policing your desires. Not wanting, not being allowed to want. And again, what you find might scare you.

The shadow doesn’t disappear because we are good. It simply gets pushed away to fester in the darkness. What becomes possible when we stop trying to become better people and start admitting that we’re not only good?

Who did you become to be loved? We learn to want less, need less, say less and ask for nothing. But what if intimacy begins when we stop making ourselves smaller and finally dare to say: I WANT.