The Bright Insight Blog

And the silence held by the reflective parent who could not take space can be reinterpreted as absence. And in the absence of context, silence becomes an abandonment where the memories never made get already discarded.

What emerges from that work is not perfect harmony. It is rhythm—a negotiated, evolving balance between autonomy and connection.

There it was - finally proof that I was intuiting correctly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dismissed or told that I was crazy.