I forgive you for not knowing then, The wisdom you've acquired since when.” “Though moments may have shamed your soul, They shaped your journey and made you whole. I know how lonely you felt. Not just emotionally lonely. Physically lonely. I know what it felt like to come home and feel unseen. To want softness, attention, warmth… and not know why it felt so hard to receive it. I know how badly you wanted to feel chosen. And I know the story you quietly started telling yoursel
She was the third child of a broken home, with an absent mother and a father prone to alcohol and rage, she grew up alone, feeling lost in a world where she didn't belong. “Lonely Fighter”, Aligned, Linda Danon. I understand now why you’re always alert. It wasn’t paranoia. It wasn’t overreacting. It was intelligence. You grew up in a place where the atmosphere could change without warning. Where someone else’s mood determined whether the day would feel safe or not. Where you
for years my feelings I had to hide to survive and not break on the inside I started healing and finally felt free to feel but I did not know it would all feel so deep at first I saw it as the burden of putting down my guard but now I see it clearly, feeling deeply is the reward I understand why you got used to not feeling. It wasn’t because feeling was wrong. It was because it wasn’t safe. It was all too much. Too much intensity. Too much uncertainty. And your system did the
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