I think intensity really means emotion and trauma. Very few people can handle deep emotions and traumatic material from others and this can cause great anxiety that we call "intense". We blame others, but it's really our own stuff, our own deeply repressed material, our anxiety. Because that is what "intense" really means when we... Continue Reading →
Is there such thing as being “dramatic”?
I am not a fan of the word "intense". It is often used to suggest a "pathology" when it just might instead point to one who isn't afraid of being in their realness. For the same reason, I don't like the word "dramatic". In a stoic world where so many are terrified of emotion --... Continue Reading →