19/03/2026
There was never just one version of you
There was the one who curled inward, who learned to make herself small, who held the pain, the silence, the survival
And there was the one who kept reaching, who stayed open to beauty, who believed in something more
Not separate, just experienced differently
We often speak about healing like we have to choose
The light or the shadow
The healed or the wounded
The woman we are becoming or the one we were
But this is where the split begins
Because both have always existed within you
The part of you that withdrew was protecting something sacred
The part of you that stayed open was remembering something true
Healing isn’t choosing one over the other
It’s allowing them to meet
To realise they were never enemies, just two expressions of the same self trying to find safety in different ways
And when they come together something softens
You’re no longer fragmented between who you were and who you’re becoming
You become whole because you can hold both
There is no old you to leave behind
Only parts of you waiting to be welcomed home
Artwork by ✨
