March 22

How We All Cry for Peace

"A decade later, we moved to New York, and I started to have panic attacks. I started doubling down on control because I felt powerless in claustrophobic spaces. Again, I tried to control my environment. I would avoid the trains, the planes, elevators, the subways, the crowds in New York City. I would step into an elevator or a subway car and then panic and try to reopen the elevator or subway doors. Don't try that. That doesn't work. But it was me, just trying so desperately to control my panic attack—if I go this way, or if I do this thing. And yet, the more I tried, the more I tried to pivot my life, the more enslaved I became. I became a shell of myself." - Rebekah Lyons

Read more from Rebekah Lyons and her cry for peace here.