Dear Loreen,

I believe I’m a strong and good person when I appear happy. I believe I’m a bad and weak person when I show my anger, sadness and fear. I need safety to share how I feel, my truth. I need to be reminded that it is not my fault if and how people react to how I feel/to my truth. I feel to scared to be this vulnerable. Afraid to feel shame, guilt and scared to be punished, critized for feeling and thinking the way I do.

For example, is it safe for me to say:

“It’s unfair how hard it is for us humans to truely see eachother, especially when we feel unsafe. I cannot stand it. It frustrates me, so much. It makes me very angry. It makes me cry while I think about it. It hurts me.”

Cause that’s how I feel. This is my truth.

Much love,

Leentje