I’m not afraid of the shadows anymore.
Once you’ve felt your whole life slip out from under you there’s a gravity you find within yourself.
I’ve had many people tell me I’m brave, for looking my traumas dead in the eyes and allowing myself to feel the wounds at their fullest capacity.
To hear I’m brave always takes me off guard. In my opinion, I had no other choice. It was either feel the pain completely or carry it with me for the rest of my life, allowing it to seep into my being and my subconscious choices. I didn’t want to live that way. So I choose to dive into the darkness.
And I survived.
So I’m not afraid anymore. To feel. Because once something is felt, no matter how big or small, it is seen… it is acknowledged… it is lived. And then we can emerge into a world where it cannot control us.
