This year did not ask politely. It asked us to shed—layers of self, expectation, certainty, and the stories we once used to survive. The Year of the Snake arrived not as a whisper, but as a reckoning. Skin after skin fell away, revealing tender places we did not feel ready to show the world, or…
Abandonment is not only what happened to us in the past. It is what our body remembers in the present. It is the leftover imprint of being emotionally, physically, or spiritually left behind.