May 25, 2021
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collectiveworld ~ Instagram
words by becky_curl ~ Instagram
You deserve to feel whole again. You deserve to reignite the light in your eyes that you lost the day you met them. You deserve to feel comfortable in your own skin again, and you deserve to take back ownership of the body that someone else forced you to let them control. You deserve to have dreams and goals and big plans for your future, even if for right now, those plans only involve you.
You deserve to let yourself be selfish for a while. Do all of the things that you love without worrying about someone else’s opinion of them. Dye your hair your favorite color, and relish in the fact that they would probably hate it. Wear your favorite clothing and patterns and prints and know that for the first time in a long time, the only person you are dressing for is you. You are doing everything for you. You deserve to embrace the person you were before them.
You deserve to remind yourself of just how worthy of a wonderful life you are. You did not deserve the abuse you endured. There was nothing you did or could have done to make you deserving of that kind of treatment. Take care, and remind yourself that the abuse you suffered from this person was never a reflection of who you were as a person. You were not abused because you were weak or because you deserved to be punished. Their abuse was something they chose to inflict on you. They took advantage of you. You cannot change a person who does not want to get better, but you, you will be able to change because you want to get better. You did not choose to be abused, and you did not choose to bear all of this trauma. But, you have the power to choose how you will recover from it all.
Becky Curl, This Is The Kind Of Recovery You Deserve (Thought Catalog)
Sometimes you really do need to break before you can fully become. And sometimes the breaking can seem like the end. But then one day, you will wake up and realize that you were always the key to healing your own heart.
(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)