Tag: love
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Emotional Healing: How to Stop Carrying Childhood Shame Into Adulthood
🔍 In Brief: what happens when the shame you carry isn’t even yours to begin with? Emotional healing becomes nearly impossible when you’re trying to release shame that was planted in childhood, before you knew how to question if it was true. The cost of carrying unnecessary shame into adulthood can be a lifetime of…
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Emotional Healing Starts When You Stop Asking If Your Feelings Are Valid
🔍 In Brief: what happens when you’ve been taught to doubt your own emotional reality? Emotional healing becomes nearly impossible when you constantly question whether your hurt is legitimate or if you’re “just being dramatic.” The cost of seeking external permission to feel what you feel can keep you trapped in relationships that slowly erode…
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Emotional Healing: When Protection Feels Like Being Broken
🔍 In Brief: after a difficult relationship ends, many people find themselves unable to connect the way they used to — guarded where they were once open, distant where they were once warm, suspicious where they were once trusting. This shift often gets interpreted as damage, as being “broken” or fundamentally changed for the worse.…
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When Mental Health Strains Relationships
Today I came across something that touched a deep nerve — a message from someone caught between struggling with depression and feeling like a burden in their relationship. The raw honesty of feeling like you’re “a drain to be around” while desperately needing understanding and support. There’s something profoundly painful about this space where mental…
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When Healing Hurts: Why Setting Boundaries Feels Like Betrayal
There’s this moment in your healing journey when you realize the people who claim to love you the most are the ones fighting hardest against your growth. It hits you like a slap — not the gentle awakening you expected, but a cold, brutal realization that saying “no” to others often means saying “yes” to…