You find yourself hoping for things to change; you want a ‘better’ love life, boundaries and to make choices that feel good. You doom scroll on insta searching for answers. You’ve read the posts, followed all the advice that should help, yet somehow they aren’t working and you end up doubting yourself even more.and get attached to external forces that appear to create a certainty you can’t create yourself.

Having had one absent parent, and one who exhibits high amounts of narcissistic traits, birthdays were never really about me...