05/28/2026
I think one of the hardest things to accept after a painful experience is how quickly we turn against ourselves afterward.
We replay conversations.
Missed signs.
Moments we wish we handled differently.
And somewhere along the way, we start speaking to our past self with information they never actually had.
I’ve learned that healing sometimes looks less like “figuring everything out” and more like softening the way you speak to yourself about what happened.
Especially the version of you that was simply trying to make the best decisions they could at the time.
That version of you deserved compassion too.