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The Brutal Truth About Healing: It's Not Always Pretty, and It's Never Easy

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  Healing Doesn’t Mean Forgetting. People need to understand something about healing: just because someone says they’ve “moved on” or claims they’ve “healed” doesn’t mean the pain is gone. As long as your memory still works, that betrayal, that hurt, that thing you did to someone, it never truly disappears. Emotional pain doesn't vanish like a deleted message. It lingers. It echoes. Just like physical wounds leave scars, emotional wounds do too. And those scars? They can reopen.  Sometimes, the pain hits harder the second time around. Person A might have betrayed or deeply hurt Person B, and now B claims to have moved on, but the truth is, they are trying. Trying to hold themselves together. Trying to make sense of everything. Then suddenly, a small comment or reminder triggers and reopens the wound. And when that happens, it doesn’t just sting, it bleeds deeper than it ever did before. People say, “Why is she overreacting now? She didn’t even act like this the first time.” Wh...