16d • General Sanctuary Discussion
🕊️ A New Year, For Those Who Survived It
If you’re entering this new year carrying things you never should have had to carry, this is for you.
If last year wasn’t about growth or glow-ups, but about getting through, about surviving someone else’s choices, someone else’s control, someone else’s harm, you’re not behind.
If your nervous system still flinches.If your body remembers what your mouth doesn’t want to explain.If safety feels louder than celebration.
You’re not broken. You're responding exactly as a human does after being hurt.
This year doesn’t need to be about forgiveness, closure, or becoming “stronger.”It doesn’t need to be about proving resilience or rising from ashes.
This year can be about:
- choosing calm over chaos
- choosing distance over explaining
- choosing yourself without justifying it
Healing doesn’t always look like moving forward. Sometimes it simply looks like not going back.
If you’re rebuilding trust with yourself. If you’re learning how to feel safe in your own body again. If you’re choosing peace as a form of protection.
You’re doing sacred work.
And you don’t owe anyone access, clarity, or comfort while you do it.
This year can be quiet. It can be slow. It can belong to you.
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🕊️ A New Year, For Those Who Survived It
