Learning to feel again

The summer began with a painful breakup that brought up very old, painful feelings within me. For years, these feelings had been hidden and suppressed inside me, so that I would not have to feel them. As children, we do everything we can to avoid feeling pain—or we are even taught to bypass pain instead of actually feeling it. Yet emotions simply want to be felt; that is what they are there for. Safi Nidiaye helped me to reconnect more with myself and my hidden, almost disconnected emotions, and paved the way for my journey inward.