Nadia Rahman

About

I will admit the difficult part: talking about your own childhood while being a functioning adult with responsibilities can feel self-indulgent, and a great many people carry that objection quietly for years before they ever book anything. It is not self-indulgent. Childhood wounds are load-bearing in adult life, and examining them is maintenance rather than nostalgia, particularly when they are shaping how you work, rest, and treat yourself now. We stay firmly in the present tense. The past comes into it only where it explains something currently costing you. Crisis work came at the very start for me, and it left me with no patience at all for the idea that some difficulties are too small to warrant attention. If you have been calling this self-indulgent, that objection is worth putting down. Maintenance is a better word for this than nostalgia.