Beyond Your Wounds

The reason you're so addicted to your own suffering is because you don't know who you are

without it. When pain becomes your identity, healing feels like dying.

So when things start getting better, you sabotage it. You pick fights. You create problems.

You find ways to return to the familiar darkness. Because at least there,

you know who you are. Your suffering is real. It deserves to be

acknowledged. What happened to you matters. But when you let it define you forever,

it stays just that suffering. Nothing more. You've told the story of your pain

so many times that you forgot you could tell a different story. You've been the