I have a soft spot for people rebuilding themselves after life breaks them open. Because I know what it feels like to lose your sense of who you are, to look in the mirror and not recognize the person staring back. Healing isn't about moving on, it's about meeting every version of yourself that pain created and learning to love the one that survived. You see all the ugly parts, the bitterness, the fear, the numbness, and you realize they were only ever trying to protect you. It's messy, disorienting, and so unbelievably brave. To anyone in that stage right now, you got this. Don't rush to be better. Just be honest. Healing isn't about finding who you were, it's about becoming who you needed back then. The people who rebuild from their ruins never return as who they were. They come back softer in the right places, stronger in the quiet ones. There's a kind of power that comes from facing everything that was meant to break you, and it never leaves your eyes again.
This is Sunderland’s World Cup.
Make that five scorers with Habib Diarra netting tonight for Senegal against Iraq and Brobbey added another goal for the Netherlands last night.
4 - Following Nilson Angulo's strike for Ecuador vs Germany, four different Sunderland players have now scored at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with only PSG having more individual scorers at the tournament (6).
Ha'way.
3 - Brian Brobbey is just the third player on record (since 1966) to find the net with each of his first-ever three shots at the FIFA World Cup, after Laszlo Kiss (for Hungary in 1982) and Yerry Mina (for Colombia in 2018).
Effective.
Four different Sunderland players have now scored at the #FIFAWorldCup, with only Paris Saint-Germain having more individual scorers at the tournament (6) 🎯
Last World Cup Sunderland had just been promoted to the championship from League one.
As it stands only PSG have more World Cup scorers than Sunderland in the 2026 World Cup.
The trajectory is insane.
Days like this in the 80s/90s me mam would do something like this! I only ever appreciated it when I’d moved out! What I’d give to go back to those days❤️
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
Be delusional about your potential.
I saw a quote that said "to procrastinate is to willingly endure the discomfort of anticipation, rather than the discomfort of action. Both are burdens, but only one leads to progress" and if that didn't light a fire in me.