Welcome,
Beautiful one.
If you've found your way here,
Perhaps your heart is carrying the weight of a hurt,
A hurt that has stayed with you,
Lingering quietly beneath the surface of your days.
Maybe someone's words cut deeper than you expected,
Perhaps a moment changed something between you and another person,
Or it could be that someone you trusted left you feeling Dismissed,
Disappointed or broken inside,
And even now your mind may still be returning to it,
Replaying conversations,
Replaying expressions,
Wondering what happened.
Sometimes,
Hurt settles into the body in silent ways,
A tightness in the chest,
A knot in the stomach,
A weariness that follows you into the late hours of the night.
After a while,
It can become exhausting,
Carrying this tenderness inside you whilst still trying to move through everyday life.
For these next few moments,
This is simply a space to rest,
A place to loosen your grip on the pain,
A space where your heart can breathe again.
You do not need to solve everything right now.
You only need this moment,
This breath,
This gentle return to yourself.
Slow breath in,
Let your body begin to settle,
Notice where your body is meeting the surface beneath you,
Feel the softness around your eyes,
Your shoulders slowly melting down,
The steady rhythm of your breath,
And as your body begins to relax,
Allow yourself to acknowledge these words right now,
What hurt you mattered.
Sometimes we try to minimize our pain,
We tell ourselves we should be over it by now,
We try to stay strong,
Stay busy,
Keep moving forward,
Yet certain hurts stay with us because they touched a place that is tender and intensely human within us,
And when that hurt comes from someone we trusted,
Someone we cared for,
Someone whose words or presence mattered deeply,
It can leave us questioning ourselves in ways we rarely say out loud.
Maybe I was too much,
Not enough,
Too sensitive,
Too trusting,
And slowly the pain begins to blur into identity.
But that is not the truth of you,
Being hurt does not make you weak.
Take another slow breath in,
Imagine that you are sitting beside a still body of water just before sunrise,
The air is cool and calm,
The world feels quiet here,
The water before you reflects the soft colours of the waking sky,
Sitting with what you've been carrying,
And for a moment you don't have to do anything with it,
You don't have to understand it or forgive it,
There is space to simply sit beside it now,
Without needing to untangle every part of it.
Just let yourself be here with it,
And as you sit,
The first light of morning begins to rise slowly over the water,
The soft gold stretching across the horizon,
Touching the water,
Then the air around you begins to flow into you,
Reaching the places inside you that have felt cold and heavy for a long time.
As that warmth moves deeper into you,
A shift begins,
You may still feel the hurt,
But the burden of it begins to give way,
Like a breath you didn't know you were holding,
Finally,
And in that space,
Something opens,
Beyond answers,
Beyond resolution,
Space to exist alongside what happened,
Without being consumed by it,
Letting yourself be supported by the quiet around you,
And held gently by the warmth of the morning light,
But in this moment,
You are greater than it,
Beneath the disappointment,
Beneath all the questions,
There is still a part of you that was never touched by what happened,
A place that remained whole,
Your worth was never created by another person's ability to see it,
And it was never diminished by the ways they may have failed you,
You were not wrong to care,
You were not foolish to trust,
Opening your heart to someone,
That was never the mistake,
That tenderness is nothing to be ashamed of,
It is one of the most honest things about you,
Take another slow breath in,
Imagine the sunlight growing warmer around you,
The water shimmering softly,
The sky opening to a new day,
Life ahead of you that has not yet unfolded,
Mornings you haven't woken into,
That possibility,
Place a hand over your heart,
And inwardly let these words move through you,
I was not wrong to care,
What broke me open also showed me how deeply I can feel,
Rest here for a few moments,
Breathing slowly,
And as this moment comes to a close,
Carry this feeling with you,
What happened to you may have left a mark,
The morning came anyway,
And so did you,
Stay here for as long as your soul needs,
