Excerpt from "Hatching Charlie"

Repression is not a local anesthetic but a wide-ranging one. It numbs not only the capacity to feel painful feelings, such as shame, sadness, or anxiety, but the capacity to feel in general, including positive feelings, such as the joy and happiness one might feel from the nuances entailed in a beautiful sunset or the varying textures of a tender kiss.
In this world of the repressed, cut off from the light of consciousness and the spring-fed tributaries of openness to the world, the growing darkness can only feed upon itself.
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