Healing Takes Time

Healing is rarely the montage. It's the third month, when the people who checked on you have gone back to their lives and you're still doing the work.

I stopped measuring progress in breakthroughs and started measuring it in returns: how quickly I came back to myself after a hard day.

Give it time. Not passive time — attended time. Journaling, walking, saying the true thing out loud to one safe person.

You are not behind. You're healing, which is the slowest and most important thing a person can do.