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

Yet one day, a beacon shone, She grasped her strength, her inner tone. Not circumstances, but her own view, Defined her fate, to herself she'd be true. A shift in thought, a brighter gaze, She recast her life, rewrote her days. There is something that, once you understand it, can change your life completely. The reality you are living today is a reflection of your identity. And your identity is shaped by what you think, what you feel, and what you believe to be true about yo