As some of you may know, I've been going through an intense process lately. It's been a full-time job — dealing with the backlash from a controversial public post that I made recently. Sharing that post exposed me to vicious personal attacks and it also sent huge shockwaves through my local community.
Coming out on the other side of this experience now, what it has inspired and catalyzed for me is this: an impulse to create my own safe, sacred, boundaried container to share my writing...
And it's not going to be on Facebook, or on any other so-called "social" platform that profits from hatred and division.
My first essay will drop in here on July 28. I am starting with a multi-part series: my rape trauma memory, the realization process that followed, and then several key milestones for me on the long road of recovery and healing over two decades.
Getting to this point, where I feel capable of articulating and sharing the details of my journey with both acquaintances and strangers alike has taken me a LOT of work.
If you choose to become part of my readership circle, I ask for a modest energy exchange and request respect for a simple boundary.
Writing is my sacred purpose work. It’s not entertainment and not a hobby. There’s an immense amount of lived experience, healing work, emotional process, and life force energy invested into what I am writing and sharing here.
This container for my writing is purposefully designed with an energy boundary, for protection of both writer and readers. Because your contribution is a contract. You consent to receive me and you also agree *not* to share my work outside the container — that would be a violation of my trust.
This first transmission is highly sensitive, so take care. Please be self-responsible. If you are healing from trauma, check in with yourself and/or your therapist to see if you are in a good place to receive and read me. My hope is that by exposing my process vulnerably, it can somehow support our collective healing journey.
If you or someone you know would like to read my writing and can’t pay the $5 to subscribe, then I invite you/them to email me at heywendymay@gmail.com. As long as I receive a direct email request, with acknowledged consent and an honor agreement, I’m happy and willing to send my work to anyone who asks me, for free.