My Therapist Says

My Therapist Says to Write Notes to My Future Self

Here’s how I learned to transform present pain into future growth

Emillio Mesa
Elemental
Published in
4 min readMar 3, 2021

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Illustration of a person making a voice recording while overlooking an aurora borealis of sound bites.
Xinmei Liu for Elemental

At 13, I told my grandmother that one day everyone would know that I was único, Spanish for unique. That was my code for being queer.

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Emillio Mesa
Elemental

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