Category: Healing & Recovery
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You’re not broken. You’re coming out of survival mode. And that strange, disconnected feeling? It’s your nervous system learning how to feel safe again.
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I didn’t just get gaslit. I learned how to do it to myself! I explained things away. Softened the truth. Talked myself out of what I knew… just so I could stay.
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People talk about healing like you can step away from life to do it. But what if you can’t? What if you still have to work, parent, show up… and somehow heal at the same time?
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“He’s good to his mum.” I used to think that meant something. It didn’t.
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There was always something. A thought. A task. A reason to keep going. Stillness didn’t feel natural to me.
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I didn’t just lose trust in them. I lost trust in myself. My thoughts. My instincts. My own sense of what was real. And that was the hardest thing to rebuild.
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If you constantly crave sugar, carbs, or comfort food… especially when you feel stressed or overwhelmed… You’re not weak. Your body might be trying to regulate something deeper.
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If you’re constantly questioning your reality… If you feel like you’re always the problem… It’s not just a “bad relationship.” Something deeper is happening.
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There was a moment I had to decide. Do I step in… or do I let it unfold? And that wasn’t a simple choice.
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No one talks about the final stage of healing. The part where the chaos has ended… but you don’t quite know who you are without it.