12/14/2025
There’s something your body knows
long before your mind catches up:
the right people don’t disrupt your peace —
they regulate it.
You don’t have to perform around them.
You don’t have to calculate your tone,
your facial expressions,
your level of enthusiasm,
your carefully measured vulnerability.
Your chest doesn’t tighten.
Your thoughts don’t scatter.
Your guard doesn’t slam shut
the moment you misread a micro-expression.
With the right people,
your nervous system stops bracing for impact
because there is no impact coming.
No sharp edges.
No hidden agenda.
No emotional landmines waiting to explode
because of something you didn’t even know you did.
Just steadiness.
Quiet safety.
A felt sense of, “I don’t have to survive in this room.”
That’s what real alignment is.
Not butterflies.
Not fireworks.
Not the adrenaline of trying to be “enough.”
But a grounded, steady exhale you didn’t realise
you’ve been holding your whole life.
And here’s the truth trauma teaches you the hardest way:
Your body will pull away from the wrong people
even while your mind makes excuses for them.
Your tension is information.
Your exhaustion is information.
Your anxiety around them is information.
Your instinct to shrink, to silence yourself, to disappear—
all of it is your system saying:
“This connection costs too much.”
Because the right people?
They don’t demand a version of you
that betrays the real one.
They make you feel balanced,
not because they’re perfect,
but because they don’t make you fight for emotional safety
inside your own skin.
And when you finally meet them—
the ones who speak to your nervous system,
not your wounds—
you’ll realise something heartbreaking
and liberating at the same time:
It was never that you were “too much.”
You were just surrounded by people
who weren’t capable of meeting you.
The right people won’t drain you.
They won’t confuse you.
They won’t make you question your worth.
They won’t make your body collapse into survival mode.
They’ll feel like stillness.
Like clarity.
Like ease.
Your soul doesn’t recognise people by words.
It recognises them by how your body feels
when you’re finally safe.
And once you’ve felt that?
You’ll never again settle for the chaos
you once mistook for connection.