I can’t believe I am at 144 days but I’m here and I’m proud of myself but while it gets a little easier day 138-139 I spent locked in a bathroom bawling to a small degree. Therapy continues on weekly but some days the overwhelming emotions hit me like a brick wall and take me right back to the first few weeks of what the no contact felt like, barely can breathe, grief that is so strong I almost beg myself not to feel because I am afraid of how big the feeling is. Babes we take one day at a time and it won’t be perfect and it will continue to hurt some but that’s how we know we are growing and truly healing. allow yourself to feel and remember it wasn’t that what you did or said or who you were wasn’t enough.. it was that they weren’t enough for themselves. You got this, I got this and here is to continued healing for all of us <3 I have been healing from trauma and domestic violence my now estranged husband who does have a restraining order on him did to me and a strong 4 years of that mixed with constant fleeing which left me financially flooded and spousal abandonment almost every 3 weeks for years. I know I got a ways to go and even 5 months in still not feeling like how I did years ago but I’m growing and beginning to glow again one day at a time <3
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when those brick-wall waves hit, is it a certain memory that triggers it or does it come out of nowhere?
when those huge feelings hit, i try not to fight her. it usually makes it worse. i just let myself cry or sit still and remind myself it passes every single time. you’re doing the hard work just by continuing.
hitting 100 days and still having those “on the bathroom floor” moments. mine was after leaving a toxic situation where i kept fleeing then coming back. those waves that feel like the first week again… they’re so real. you’re not going backwards, you’re just carrying a lot of history in your body
thanks for sharing your story and your words of encouragement 💗
you're the best.
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