11/26/2025
You can be grateful for your healing and still grieve the family you’ll never have.
Tomorrow brings both.
Gratitude for choosing yourself. Grief for what you wish existed.
If you’re alone tomorrow because you chose yourself - that’s not punishment. That’s peace.
If you’re going and already dreading it - that’s not ungrateful. That’s honest.
Thanksgiving when you’ve done the healing work your family refuses to do is complicated.
You sit at the table watching the same patterns play out. Or you stay away and feel the weight of that choice.
Both are hard.
You’re not ungrateful for struggling with this day. You’re human.
Some things can be true at the same time:
You’re grateful for your growth AND you grieve what you lost.
You chose peace AND it still hurts sometimes.
You made the right choice AND it’s lonely.
You outgrew them AND you wish you didn’t have to.
Tomorrow isn’t about pretending everything is fine. It’s about honoring wherever you are in your healing - even if that means being alone, being uncomfortable, or being both grateful and grieving. trauma I see you. And I’m proud of you for choosing yourself.🐸🫶