The Guilt That Comes From Finally Saying No
Nobody tells you that doing the right thing for yourself will feel like doing something wrong. You set a boundary. Maybe for the first time. And instead of feeling free, you feel guilty. Selfish. Unkind. You replay the conversation, wondering if you were too harsh, if you should apologize, if you should just take it back. This is what happens when you've spent years prioritizing other people's...
Healing is not a straight line.
Nobody tells you that. They show you the before and the after -the breakdown and the breakthrough but they skip everything in the middle. The months where you're doing the work and still feel awful. The days when you think you've finally turned a corner and then fall apart again. The strange grief of getting better, because getting better means finally feeling what you spent so long avoiding....