The last illusion trauma breaks is the fantasy of self-sufficiency. Don’t have time to read? Listen to the podcast! Trauma teaches survival. Healing teaches life. For a long time, those felt interchangeable. They are not. Survival sharpened me. It rewarded vigilance, independence, and competence. Healing slowed me down. It asked for honesty I could no…
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The Mask Was Protection — Now It’s a Prison
You’ve spent so long keeping it together that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to actually be whole. Don’t have time to read? Listen to the podcast! At some point, survival became performance. You learned to smile through fear, to stay competent when you were breaking inside. What began as protection eventually became your personality….