New You, New Me
There's a much bigger post in the works about what all has been happening over the last six months, including the species change. I'm still working on how to frame and discuss it all in the spirit of honesty and empathy without blame.
New You, New Me
However, I can post the short-short here and now, which is that "intentional divestment of defense mechamisms" was part of what I had to learn when I moved from bear to rabbit. Part of that work disarmed a lot of my boundaries and impacted my willingness to defend both them and myself.
This change is, at least in part, an attempt to take ownership of those boundaries, and to more explicitly express elements of self that th' buni couldn't represent.