Pink Pitchforks (Part 3): Safe spaces in community

How we care for each other's healing

This essay is a continuation from Pink Pitchforks (Part 2): Healing the witch wound.

The drug of false belonging

It is human nature to desire and seek belonging. It goes beyond identifying with tribe or feeling part of community. On a primal level, safety in numbers is a survival instinct. But what happens when the group is held together by invisible cont…