The Importance of Reconciliation in a Pandemic

In 2020, I stopped running away and finally faced my oldest friends, fear, loneliness, and insecurity. The discipline of painting every day helped me go through the hardest moments. Finally, I had the time and space to reconcile with my childhood fears and desperate need for safety and companionship. With the entrance of 2021, I still neither have a job, model family relations, nor a boyfriend, but I did gain much more than she lost. I found myself. Beautiful.