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Touching words

A complicated relationship to self-protection

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Saffron Morter-Laing
Jan 05, 2024
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Hi all!

I hope you are having a good start to the New Year. This is a poem on touch, the umbilical cord and chronic empathy. Well those are the topics it covers, but really it’s about relationships to others, the self as affected by others and self-protection.

If this aligns with your experiences then to read more on similar topics.

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