🌿 Healing & Forgiveness ❤️‍🩹

There’s something sacred about the moment you finally let go — not because it didn’t hurt, not because you’ve forgotten, but because you’ve decided you deserve peace more than you deserve revenge. Healing and forgiveness are not the same, but they walk hand in hand. One opens the door, the other teaches you how to walk through it.

Healing asks you to face what broke you. To sit with the pain long enough to understand it. To stop pretending it didn’t happen and instead, allow yourself to feel it — cry, question, breathe, and rebuild.

Forgiveness, though… that’s the hard part. Because it’s not about them — it’s about you. It’s about reclaiming your power from people and moments that once held it hostage. It’s about saying, “You no longer control how I move forward.”

And some days, forgiveness doesn’t come easy. It might show up in small moments — choosing not to replay the hurt, choosing peace over reaction, choosing to smile again even when your heart still aches. That’s still healing. That’s still progress.

So, if you’re reading this and you’re struggling to forgive — take your time. Healing doesn’t happen overnight. Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting. It means freeing yourself from the weight of what you can’t change.

You deserve that freedom. You deserve that peace. 💖