Abby Wambach
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And I felt like that was so important.
It was vulnerable, but it also was about accountability for other people.
Because what people tend to decide is, well, I guess I'll do something when I have everything figured out, when I know my next steps, when I know where I'm going.
And I don't know that this is a time for that.
This is a time
What Megan, you're saying is, no, no, no, I'm going to stop my world whether or not I know where I'm stepping next.
I am detaching myself at least from this monstrous nightmare that I have always known was present.
And Megan, that's why-
I feel so deeply connected to you is because as a person who has, and I'm not going to say a lot of this, right?
Cause it's still spinning, but who has sat in therapy for 40 years where people, and there's so much I love about therapy, but where basically the message was like, everything's okay.
And you're just going to have to understand that everything's okay somehow.
And here are your strategies.
I have always been like, okay, I guess I have to pretend to believe you.
But I have always known that everything was not okay.
I have always known that was horseshit.
I have always known that just maybe because I'm particularly safe in my home with my โ does not mean โ
That anyone else is safe just because I could protect my peace doesn't mean that that's the definition of what peace is for me.
That peace is about continuing to make yourself vulnerable until more people have peace.
That I knew peace.
that these motherfuckers were doing this shit in every locker room, in every meeting, in every back end, that I knew that they were profiting off of women and then turning around and raping them behind their backs, that they were laughing in locker rooms.