Often we inflict the self-shaming of guilt onto ourselves, crushing any semblance of who we were or who might want to be.
SELF ESSAY- Misdiagnosed for 15 Years: My Battle With Endometriosis
Published on SELF on March 25, 2016. I shared “A Personal Note on International Women’s Day here. I am gripping at my lower abdomen in a fetal position. My pelvis pulsates and tightens. I imagine someone wringing a rag within me. I am 15, and an unapologetic Tomboy, no stranger to injuries from skimboarding and flag football. But the pain …
“So how was Cuba?”
I didn’t have the “amazing” Havana, Cuba experience everyone else seemed to.