Journal

On remembering who you were before survival taught you hide. Healing is not becoming someone else. It is remembering who you were before fear taught you to disappear. Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to perform in order to be accepted. To become quieter. Smaller. Easier to understand. Less emotional. Less visible. We build identities around survival, then spend years believing they are who we truly are. But the self does not vanish. It waits beneath the roles we le