Tattoos and Boundaries

Within the past few weeks, I’ve had several strangers ask me what the tattoo on my chest means. 

This tattoo, my most recent one, was the first tattoo I got in 8 years. It was a symbol that I intentionally researched, outlined, meditated on, and added to, with my own hand-drawings.

It is something I felt on my chest for months, as if I were pregnant, bef…