Healing does not always change the past. Sometimes it changes the distance from which we view it.
Seeds
Small truths for the way through.
Not articles. Not lectures. Just little pieces of light to carry into the day.
Trauma narrows your world. Healing expands it again.
We do not heal by becoming someone else. We heal by coming home to ourselves.
Your wounds can become part of your story without becoming the author of it.
The opposite of control is not chaos. It is freedom with discernment.
Do not just empty your cup. Fill it with something worthy.
Sometimes people do not need someone to give them hope. They need someone to remind them they still have it.
Language gives shape to suffering. Once we can name it, we can begin to relate to it differently.
Take what nourishes you. Leave what does not. Keep seeking.
Every book I picked up was not an answer. It was another lantern.
When we zoom out, we often discover that pain was never the whole picture.
May you find your way back to yourself.