Healing Wounds
Healing Wounds I want my family members to heal from the wounds that they have long concealed. I have learned that these feelings of loneliness during quarantine are best battled with self-expression. As I isolated with my family, I could feel my mental health spiralling downwards. I was becoming familiar with the critical difference between being alone and feeling lonely – realizing that I was significantly happier living alone in my basement suite than moving back into a Filipino household of six. Instead, I continued to quarantine in the space where I, for the majority of my adolescence,...