Christian Pankhurst

There is a shame that hides as ambition, and a shame that hides as healing. The second is sneakier, because it looks like the cure. A reflection on the costume self-awareness can become, why pathologising every part of ourselves is not freedom, and what shadow work actually offers when it stops trying to fix us.

Most of us were never taught the difference between love and intensity. So we chase the feeling, and we assume the rush is the real thing. Often it isn't. A reflection on why the connections that hurt us are sometimes the ones that felt the most right, why intensity bypasses judgment, and why the patterns that catch us are usually ones we're participating in too.