The Quiet Room: Is it Inauthentic to Sit Alone in Our Pain?
This is for anyone who has ever suffered in silence and wondered if that made them a fraud. And it's for anyone who later learned that someone they loved was suffering all along and who now carries a quiet guilt for not having been there sooner, or at all. There is a particular kind of ache that comes with pain: the ache of feeling alone in it. And there is a particular kind of fear that follows: that the not-sharing was somehow dishonest. That silence is a lie we tell the