How I'm Healing as the Family Scapegoat — In Small Daily Pieces
For years I carried the weight of being the family scapegoat. The one blamed for what other people couldn't face about themselves. The one whose name came up first when something went wrong. What I'm noticing in my healing journey lately is that the work isn't one big moment. It's small daily pieces. A morning where I don't reach for the phone before I've checked in with myself. A conversation where I don't apologize for taking up space. A quiet decision to stop tolerating something I've outgrown. None of those moments feel dramatic. Stacked across a week, they change the whole shape of my days. What's a small daily piece of your healing that's been moving lately?