you didn’t unlearn people-pleasing to perform for potential. you didn’t rebuild your nervous system to shrink for comfort. you didn’t become this version of you to hand it to someone who couldn’t meet the old one. settling betrays every version of you that fought to get here.
you can cherish the role someone once played in your life and still outgrow the chapter you shared. gratitude is not a contract; you can love what it taught you without carrying what it cost you.
Baby I do not mind being the villain in your story because in mine you lack boundaries, integrity, you have no empathy, you’re unkind and lack healthy communication skills and the emotional maturity to take accountability.
Any relationship that can be ruined by simply having a conversation about your feelings, standards, or expectations was never truly stable to begin with, beloved!
don’t fear your memory, spend time with it. revisiting doesn’t always mean repeating. having access is as much a gift as it is a portal to new insight. return as many times as you need to— the past is a library for the body, move through it as such.
no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you
A person doesn’t have to only drain you with arguments & fights. They can drain you with lack of communication, lack of trust, lack of empathy, lack of apologizing, lack of acknowledgment & lack of fulfilling your love language.
october, magnetize my intentions and repel anything that blurs the vision of where i’m headed. deepen trust in my own timing and keep me patient as seeds i planted take root. hold my heart softly if doubt ever visits and remind me that in every quiet season there is still growth.
Breakups are ok. Losing friends is ok. Moving on is ok. Healing is ok. Saying no is ok. Being alone is ok. What is NOT ok is staying somewhere where u don't feel happy, valued, loved or appreciated.