🦋 The Trigger I Couldn’t Ignore

Healing from abuse is one thing.

Healing from childhood trauma is another.

But healing from family systems that refuse to heal themselves

…that’s a whole different battle.

I thought I had healed everything I needed to.

Until this Thanksgiving.

I walked into that house and realized something:

I healed. They didn’t.

And suddenly nothing felt right anymore.

I couldn’t share what I’d survived.

I couldn’t speak about the hardest year of my life.

They laughed, minimized, avoided, deflected, and changed the subject.

I wasn’t unsafe.

I was unseen.

And that’s when it hit me:

You can’t heal in the same environment that broke you.