House Moving Therapy by Mila Petrova

Author:Mila Petrova
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mila Petrova
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Beautiful home of cold hearts and closed minds

Others amongst us may have had picture perfect, enviable physical homes (normal nice and pretty will also do) where hearts were fearful, love rationed, freedom dangerous and emotions either too flat or too chaotic. Well-groomed and well-fed, sinking into funky bean bags or buzzing along electric trains, we’ve spent years freezing on the inside, breaking into little fragments or drifting away from what’s here. Numb, contained, controlled. Volatile, extreme, unpredictable. Scared, angry either way.

We may grow up to devalue home comforts as they were never imbued with safety, human warmth, love, acceptance, encouragement for us. We may despise or reject them. At an extreme, we may find ourselves glaring, sneering at, turning away from innocent, inert objects as if the crimes of love were theirs.

We may also join the ranks of the volunteer-humanitarians to the Global South who witness how happy and connected poor people can be and begin to blame our plenty for the loss of community and connection. We may join a community in our own part of the world, committed to the simplest of material lives and making most of what we have from scratch. We want nothing to do with the soulless world of material abundance.

Or just as plausibly, we may hang onto home comforts and trimmings as if our life depended on them. We’ve learnt to trust their stability. We feel their reassurance. Once upon a time, we hid underneath patchwork blankets, behind the pillow wall of our underdesk house, in the company of our teddy bear, trying to shut away the hurricanes in our parents’ lives. Now we’ve expanded our hiding places, multiplied the sources of fear, and replaced the teddy bears with remote controls. I am safe in my castle.

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