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BeLeslie's avatar

Kelly,

Thank you for showing us your heart, 💜 its frailty and vulnerability. Creativity in itself is a vulnerable act of showing us how one feels. Love is action just like creativity in all its forms. Greatly appreciated, Leslie

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Jodi Sh. Doff's avatar

I was Louise. I am Louise. My sober date in July 27, I didn't know that about Van Gogh. Lots of little connections. Thirtyfour years sober and I couldn't even look at your intimacy worksheet.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

I fvcking love you, sister. ODAT. I’m probably Thelma.

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Michelle Dowd's avatar

Thank you for this, Kelly!

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Thanks for the read Michelle!

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Aun Ali, MBBS's avatar

Thank you for the trip through time and Europe Kelly, and appreciate the shout out!

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

You’re welcome! I used my own journey to illustrate the larger pattern of America’s intimacy disorder—how we keep searching for love in all the wrong places..

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Eileen Drennen's avatar

Yes!! Beautiful, tough, strong and true! Love this, Kelly! Cheers to your hard-won self-love -- I feel you! Our details are different but the journey is the same.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

❤️‍🔥🫶thank you Eileen!

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Love this piece so much!

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Appreciate the read and comment!

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Fantastic post. All of it.

Relate to intimacy disorder- healing not happening in isolation but in relationship,

Such a beautiful multimedia sensational experience to travel with you.

Thànk you 👀🌹💜

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Oh I’m glad you liked it. It meant so much to me creating it.

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Claire Pichel, LCSW, PMH-C's avatar

The part where you talked about raising a child and being present to nurture their essence and how that beautifully shifted into the ways we realize, in adulthood, that we stamp that out in children. I think of my clients, who, when I tell them that for example, they weren’t enabling their parent when they comforted them emotionally as a child, they were figuring out how to get their needs for attachment and survival met. It wasn’t their fault that their parent couldn’t meet their needs. And the connection they make, that sparks back to that younger self, who realized in some level that it wasn’t right, and how that essence, that connection to self, that intimacy, got thwarted. It’s right there! It’s always there. Like bodhichitta.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Yesssssssssss 🫶🥲

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Deborah Wiles's avatar

We are the same age, both raised children as teenagers, both in recovery - and therapy - long years, both found love while learning to love ourselves... and I finally went to Paris with that love -- a dream deferred for decades -- when I turned 70. It was great to read this piece. Thank you.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Thank you for sharing your journey. Your resilience in overcoming challenges, embracing recovery, and finding self-love is truly inspiring. Traveling to Paris at 70 shows it's never too late!

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Angus Mclellan's avatar

My goodness that must’ve taken you ages to write all that. A lot of work has gone into that, Very interesting a lot of things I didn’t know learned

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Haha it was a lot of work. I’m glad you found it interesting, Angus. 🫶

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Rona Maynard's avatar

Amen, Kelly. Every single point.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Oh gosh! I’m so honored you read this, Rona! Mwahhhhhh

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Rona Maynard's avatar

It was not at all what the headline led me to expect. I am happy for you and Wayne.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Thank you. It’s about America’s intimacy disorder. Wayne and I both had an intimacy disorder just like the majority of us. We did the work and thankfully we’re both willing. The work of self connection, intimacy with ourselves that is the key to intimacy with others.

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