You’re private. You handle things. You’d rather do it yourself. It feels like personality, but a lot of it was learned long before you had words for it. This issue looks at the rules we inherit from our families, and why the ones that worked are the hardest to see.
The Edit
What does it actually mean to feel supported in your relationships? This issue explores how to ask for help, communicate what you need, receive support, and build more reciprocal relationships with the people you love.
You can have people who love you and still not feel fully known. This issue explores vulnerability, emotional intimacy, and what it takes to let the people closest to you know who you really are and who you’re becoming.
What if you are more than the version of yourself that survival required?
What if the person you’ve always believed yourself to be is actually the person life required you to become?
People have called you strong for as long as you can remember. But when did being strong stop becoming something you chose and start becoming something you felt you had to be?
What happens when you’ve carried so much for so long that you forget life wasn’t meant to feel this heavy?