@michelleh
“The truth is I had been living a version of life that was laced with self-erasure. And breaking that pattern was messy.
It meant setting boundaries that disappointed people, saying no to things that once felt like survival, and grieving the identities I had outgrown.
That’s also when I started coming home to myself.
Because you can’t hurt yourself to love yourself.”
new post —> https://open.substack.com/pub/itselleshe/p/what-if-your-hardest-years-werent