That idea of something saving you in one season and sabotaging you in another really stayed with me. I think we can become strangely loyal to the things that once protected us — hyper-awareness, hope, control, even certain ways of remembering — long after the circumstances that made them necessary have changed.
Letting them go can almost feel ungrateful. But perhaps we can thank something for getting us through one version of our life without asking it to govern the next one too.
That’s exactly the part I was trying to get at. We don’t always have to reject what once helped us, sometimes we just have to know when its job is done 🤲🏻♥️
Good to read you again, Becky. 🤍
That idea of something saving you in one season and sabotaging you in another really stayed with me. I think we can become strangely loyal to the things that once protected us — hyper-awareness, hope, control, even certain ways of remembering — long after the circumstances that made them necessary have changed.
Letting them go can almost feel ungrateful. But perhaps we can thank something for getting us through one version of our life without asking it to govern the next one too.
That’s exactly the part I was trying to get at. We don’t always have to reject what once helped us, sometimes we just have to know when its job is done 🤲🏻♥️
Exactly. 🩷We can honor what carried us without asking it to carry us forever.