What is Another Word for Intimacy?

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What is Another Word for Intimacy?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Amanda Baker came to fruition after years of not writing. As a child and teenager Amanda had a passion for writing that got lost amidst the illusion of glamor in straight As and the molding of oneself to be apologetically pleasing. Who has time for vulnerability fascination imagination and daydreaming when you're told they get in the way of productivity and accomplishment? How can you access inner deepness if your heart closes? What leads to a closed heart? Without these answers Amanda was rarely intimate unless you count psychology books and social parties where intimacy is diluted by the appetizers side wall conversations and free drinks. Amanda's passion and deep-seated writing did not fully return until her 30s. Now she writes to fill the void. She writes to create connections. She writes to find true intimacy believing it is about the vulnerability that comes with being open and honest when connecting to someone else whether in friendship companionship or love. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What is Another Word for Intimacy?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Amanda travels through unexpected moments of intimacy-a pack of fruit mint gum the inside of a pocket an old green dress that still fits-only to realize that all exists within oneself. Relationships are a vessel for growth. Relationships are a mirror reflecting back in us what we believe about ourselves.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Amanda is a mental health therapist 200-hour yoga instructor and poet from Baltimore Maryland. She attended the University of Maryland School of Social Work and James Madison University. She is a mother of her four-year-old son Dylan and enjoys time in nature. Amanda has self-published a poetry collection that includes written work from her early teens into her 30s. You may find her book </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>ASK: A Collection of Poetry Lyrics and Words</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.</span></p>