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it doesn’t end when it’s over. that’s the part no one prepares you for. once you’re alone again and everything goes quiet, your body drops and your mind starts trying to catch up. you go back over it, not clearly or logically, just with this heavy sense that something wasn’t right, even if you can’

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you love them. so why does your body react like this?

that’s what makes this so confusing, because when things start getting close, your body doesn’t respond the way you think it should. it doesn’t feel warm or safe or natural. it tightens. your chest pulls in, your muscles go rigid, and something in you starts bracing like it’s about to get through s

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you adjust everything about yourself before anyone even notices anything

you hear the shift in their voice and your body decides you've done something wrong before you've even had a chance to think there's no clear problem, no one has said anything, but you're already going back over your last sentence, your tone, the way you said it, trying to find t

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you assume it’s your fault before you even know what’s wrong, even when nothing

you assume it’s your fault before you even know what’s wrong, even when nothing actually happened someone’s tone shifts slightly, they go quiet, something feels off, and your body reacts instantly. not with curiosity, with blame. your chest tightens, your mind starts replaying everything you sai

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you don’t realise how much tension you’re holding until you try to let it go and

your shoulders drop and come straight back up, your breath goes in and stops halfway, like something in your body won’t let you fully relax even though nothing’s happening so you sit there holding it in your neck, your shoulders, your chest without even thinking about it. you’ve been doing it fo

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you’ve heard people talk about butterflies in your stomachbut no one talks about

you’ve heard people talk about butterflies in your stomach but no one talks about the ones that sit in your shoulders that tight, restless pressure around your shoulder blades that never fully lets you drop into your body, like something in you is still slightly bracing even when nothing is h

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people tell you to “just be present” like it’s something simple

like you’re choosing not to be there, like you’re just distracted or overthinking or not trying hard enough. but they don’t understand what it actually feels like inside your body when you try. because it’s not that you don’t want to be present. it’s that when you are, everything hits at once. t

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they say “she survived” like that’s the end of the story, like that word somehow

and means she’s okay now. but they don’t see what that survival actually turned into. they don’t see the way her body never really settled back down, how rest doesn’t feel like rest, how even in quiet moments there’s still something in her that’s listening, scanning, waiting for something to s

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you know that moment when nothing has actually gone wrong but you’ve already dec

you’re reading into their tone, their timing, the way they said something, the way they didn’t say something, trying to figure out what just changed even though you can’t point to anything real and the worst part is you know it’s probably in your head but it still feels true, like you’re bracing

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you feel like everyone else your age knows how to handle life… and you don’t

you don’t trust yourself and you don’t even realise why you second guess simple decisions you replay conversations in your head you need reassurance but feel guilty asking for it you overthink everything until you’re exhausted you never really feel good enough in life you don’t feel capa

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there’s a specific grief that comes with being a grown woman whose mother is not

in her life not because she died. because she left. or she stayed but never showed up. or you had to be the one to walk away to survive. either way, she’s not here. and no one really talks about what that does to you after 25, after 30, after 40. because you’re supposed to be over it by

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witnessing a bond you didn’t get, while you’re out living your adult life.

one thing that still silently triggers me is seeing other women with their mums, or even hearing about it it hits me like a punch in the stomach every time it used to send me spiralling for days, sometimes weeks, like i couldn’t get out of it no matter what i did now it still hits, but it

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if thinking about your past makes your chest hurt…

this is for you that tight, aching, almost crushing feeling in your chest? the one that comes out of nowhere when a memory hits? that’s not you being dramatic that’s not “just in your head” that’s your nervous system going into threat mode your body doesn’t know the difference between

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you don’t hate yourself the way you think you do

you’re just exhausted from living inside a mind that won’t stop turning on you it’s not just the low days it’s the constant commentary running underneath everything telling you you’re not doing enough not being enough not showing up the way you “should” so even when you rest you don’t

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people keep calling it strength

but it doesn’t feel like strength when you’re sitting there afterwards replaying everything you said hearing your tone back in your head feeling that drop in your chest wondering why you did it again you already knew better that’s the part that hurts because it makes you feel like it’

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you don’t just react you watch yourself do it and still can’t stop it..

and afterwards your brain won’t leave it alone you go over it in detail what you said how it sounded how it looked from their side not because you want to but because you’re trying to find the exact moment you could have done it differently you’re not confused you’re analysing and when you can’t

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survival mode is not how you where supposed to live...

The snapping... The shutdown... The 3pm brain fog.... where you just stare.... Cry... or replay the guilt.... The tears in the kitchen after holding it together all day... The 3am overthinking spiral... Being stuck in survival mode reactions can be debilitating and exhausting.. Quietly Feelin

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people who shamed you thought they were helping...

but now you do it to yourself you don’t just react you sit there after… going over it again and again “why did i say that” “why did i react like that” “i should’ve just stayed quiet” you replay the conversation every word every look every tone you feel it in your chest that hea

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Being a parent without parents is a grief nobody names

Being a parent without parents is a grief nobody names Not the grief of death The grief of realising no one is coming No mum to call when your baby won’t sleep at 3am No dad to fix the cot while you cry in the shower No “drop them here for an hour love, go have a coffee” So you learn to

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something under the surface never really switches off...

it’s not that your life is falling apart. it’s that something under the surface never really switches off. you can laugh, reply, go about your day… but there’s always that low hum in the background. like something’s slightly off and you can’t fully settle. — and then it builds. not

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