Rusty Jacks Healing

10/29/2025

This concept used to bother me so much. What makes me run? What makes it so easy for me to walk away? Is there something wrong with me that makes it difficult to commit to connection?

The truth is, in 5 years, most of the people you see everyday will be strangers again. The collegue you laugh with at lunch, the neighbour you chat with on the street, the gym buddy you spot between sets.

Gone. Not in a tragic way, they just fade out of your universe. That’s how life works, people flow in and they flow out.
And you can’t control who stays. Sometimes, even the people you think are forever are 5 year strangers. We are all teaching and learning from each other. Lessons complete and we move on.

When I first realized this, it hurt. We pour so much love and energy into people just to watch them walk away. We say yes to things we don’t want to do, and sometimes we even shrink ourselves to fit someone else’s version of us, only for them to disappear.

I realized some people are only meant to be a chapter in the story of my life. So why live your whole story for them?

This is your reminder that you are allowed to invest your energy in things and people that matter to you. And you’re also allowed to outgrow them.

You’re allowed to build a life that makes sense to you, that brings you peace, even if others don’t understand it.

Because in 5 years, they may be strangers again and you’ll still be here.
I’m a runner. But I’m always running towards what matters to me. ❤️

08/18/2025

How does the voice in your mind sound? Are you kind to yourself? Does it comfort you the way you comfort others? Does it show compassion when you aren’t perfect?
How we self talk affects our daily well being and many don’t even notice their “inside” voice. Yet our sub and supra conscious is noticing. It is internalizing.
When you notice yourself being negative, ask yourself how you would speak to a loved one in the same situation. How would you support and comfort someone.
We can grow to be our own cheerleaders simply by remembering the people who came before us who love(d)and support(ed) us. Honor them by treating their loved one with love 💕

07/19/2025

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“Wolves and women have much in common.
Both share a wild spirit.

Women and wolves are instinctual creatures, able to sense the unseen.

They are loyal, protective of their packs and their pups.

They are wild and beautiful.

Both have been hunted and captured.

Even in captivity, one can see in the eyes of a woman, or a wolf, the longing to run free, and the determination that should the opportunity arise, whoosh, they will be gone."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

Art: Lucy Campbell, “She Contains Multitudes”
Lucy Campbell