Suppression

"We live in a world that wants you to forget and be silent. It equates strength with suppression. But in order to heal, you need to let your feelings feel. You need to let your heart release anything that crowds it's walls and causes it discomfort. Don't let pain walk in your home and squat, rent free. Feel it's intensity, then let it go."

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Staying strong

"When you acknowledge pain, you validate its impact on your life. There will be those who will try to disregard your hurt or downplay its insanity. Try as you may, you will never be able to make them understand how it affected you. How it severed your confidence. How it reshaped your thinking. How you spiraled downward knit someone you couldn't recognize anymore. They will not understand how those hands held and hurt you until you were immobile and helpless to reach out. They wrongly believe that anxiety and depression are self-inflected."

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Separation

"You have to separate your hurt from your hope. And if you can do that, you can move forward."

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