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“Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?”
“Im not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists jargon.”
“Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?”
“I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.”
“Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in...”
“Healing hurt.”
“As long as everything stayed the same, it seemed possible for him to come back. As long as everything was the way he had left it, his place was open for him. But if things changed beyond a certain ...”
“After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.”
“I have gained wisdom from leaning into my pain, in not allowing the hounds of hell to snap at my heels anymore. Now I turn around, call them by name, and let them know I am prepared to fight.”
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.”
“You deserve this. Even when you feel like you don’t. You do. You deserve to have a healthy, loving, grace-filled relationship with yourself. You deserve to stop hurting in secret and in shame. You ...”
“You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
“It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.”
“I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.”
“World’s definition of successmaterial validation of selfcold and naked substitutefor inner warmth and beauty.”
