We weren’t just taught to be good—we were conditioned to disconnect. From childhood, we were trained to override our inner knowing for the comfort of others. “Don’t talk back.” “Be nice.” “Good girls don’t act like that.” These cultural scripts run deep, and they don’t just keep us quiet—they keep us disembodied.
And this isn’t just a personal crisis. It’s a collective one.
We’re living in a time when the silence of the disconnected is deafening. So many people aren’t speaking up—not because they don’t feel something, but because they’ve been taught not to. And we all pay the price for that silence: in our systems, in our communities, and in our own bodies.
I share things like this not because I have the answers, but because I hope to trigger thought. Most of us know something’s off, but we don’t know how to come home to ourselves. And often, it takes something devastating to crack us open.
That crack is a crossroads: distract and keep moving, or get curious and start healing.
Only one of those leads home.
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