Coming to Terms With Life and Finding Gratitude
Sometimes the things you so ardently promise to never happen to you start seeping into your life, ever-so-slowly until they slam you in the face.
I vowed never to be a DV victim, I vowed to myself I would always prize my freedom, and I would never suffer any fate similar to my mother’s. Yet we all suffer from our own tragedies and traumas.
My decisions in life have given me both freedom and stigma, a desire to stay secretive and have fun. Practising inner-child healing can take both healing and destructive stages. Though I came out more empowered from it all, I’ve found myself coupled up in a relationship where we are mutually destructive, full of loss from both sides.
In my latest, awakened, conscious and empowered version of myself, I reject destructive relationships, yet I also see them as lessons and find I’m not yet done with this lesson. Through relationships, we both lose and find ourselves. They reveal the deepest, darkest, and truest parts of ourselves.
I keep making decisions I’m not proud of, though they are paired with many other decisions that I *am* proud of. I also remind myself of the importance of…