Shadow work isn’t about becoming someone new. Sometimes it’s about meeting someone you’ve spent years trying to forget, and realizing she deserved much more compassion than you ever gave her.
Tag: Healing
The Keeper of the Chapter
A mystery text message led me down a rabbit hole of old memories, unfinished stories, and one unexpected realization: sometimes the person we’re trying to get over isn’t really a person anymore. They’re a chapter. And chapters are meant to be remembered, not lived in.
You Cannot Control Relationships
We talk endlessly about how you cannot control other people, but rarely acknowledge the deeper truth: because relationships require two people, you cannot fully control relationships either. Some connections never become what we hoped they would, no matter how deeply we want them to.