Treat People With Kindness

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

physically i’m here but mentally i’m floating face down in a river

i don’t understand how anything works i just walk through life terrified

“if i were you-” you’d collapse and burst into flames if you were me.

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.