31/12/2025
“I can’t keep living from that old wound.”
Maybe you don’t talk about it much.
Maybe you’ve made peace with what happened.
Maybe you’ve even told yourself, “That was a long time ago.”
And yet…
Your reactions feel bigger than the moment.
Certain situations drain you instantly.
Your body tightens before your mind can explain why.
This isn’t weakness.
It’s not you being “too sensitive.”
It’s an old survival strategy still doing its job.
When something once hurt deeply, your system learned how to protect you.
The problem isn’t that it learned,
it’s that no one ever taught it that the danger has passed.
So the wound keeps showing up as hyper-independence, people-pleasing, control, shutdown, or constant self-doubt even when life looks “fine” on the outside.
You don’t need to relive the past to move forward.
You need to stop living from it.
Healing isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about updating what your system believes it still needs to guard against.
And when that shifts, life stops feeling like a constant brace for impact.
• Peace becomes possible.
• Choice returns.
• You finally get to live now - not then.
If this resonates, comment “READY” or send me a DM.
You don’t have to carry an old wound into a new chapter.
