05/03/2026
I want to share something with you today.
Something that came into my DM recently
and has not left my mind since.
π¬ DM RECEIVED
"I SAW YOUR POST ON MY FRIEND'S WHATSAPP STATUS AND I CHECKED YOU OUT TO REALISE THAT YOU ARE A THERAPIST.
MY FRIEND AND I WERE BOTH IN A DARK PLACE BEFORE BUT SHE PULLED OUT ALL OF A SUDDEN WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING TO ME.
I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHY BUT I SEE THAT SHE IS HAPPY AND DOING WELL.
NOW THAT SHE POSTED YOUR CONTENT AND I CHECKED YOU OUT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO ME.
SHE IS DOING WELL BECAUSE SHE SOUGHT THERAPY.
CAN YOU HELP ME JUST AS YOU HELPED MY FRIEND?"
I read this message several times.
And I want to speak to it carefully
because there are several things happening in it
that I think many of you will recognise.
First, let me say something important:
The fact that someone shares my content
does not tell me or you anything about their personal journey.
My content travels.
It reaches people who resonate with it for many different reasons.
Some share it because it helped them.
Some share it because it reminded them of someone else.
Some share it because a single line spoke to something they have been trying to say for years.
I cannot speak to anyone else's story.
What I can speak to is yours.
And this is what I want to say to the person who sent that message and to everyone who has ever watched someone they love emerge from a dark place and quietly wondered:
'What did they find?
And can I find it too?'
Yes.
You can.
Healing is not a limited resource.
It is not reserved for the people who suffered more.
It is not available only to those with a certain kind of story.
It does not require a referral.
It does not require a testimony from someone you know.
It requires only one thing:
You.
Ready.
Willing to begin.
I think about what it takes to send a message like that one.
To admit even to a stranger on the internet
that you have been in a dark place.
That you have watched someone you care about change and felt both joy for them and a quiet ache for yourself.
That you were brave enough to follow the thread
all the way to a DM.
That takes courage.
And courage even the quiet, private kind
is always the beginning of something.
Here is what I know about dark places:
They are not permanent.
They feel that way.
From inside them, it is very hard to imagine
that the heaviness you are carrying right now
could ever lift.
That the version of you that is lighter, freer,
more present and more alive is not only possible, it is waiting.
But I have sat with enough people in enough dark places to tell you with absolute certainty:
The darkness is not the whole story.
It is a chapter.
And the next chapter begins the moment you decide to let someone help you turn the page.
To the person who sent that message,
and to everyone reading this who is in their own version of that dark place,
You do not need your friend's story to validate your own pain.
You do not need to have hit rock bottom to deserve support.
You do not need to fully understand what is wrong
before you reach out.
You just need to be tired enough of the dark
to be willing to walk toward the light.
If that is you today,
my DM is open.
Not because you were referred.
Not because you ticked a particular box.
But because you are a person.
And every person who is ready to heal
deserves a safe space to begin.
Let us talk.
And if this post found you in a good place please share it for the person in your circle who is watching someone else's light from a distance
and wondering if theirs is coming.
Tell them, it is.
Love and Light,
Abisola π