Healing is allowed to be gentle
Today I allow healing to be gentle.
I release the pressure to rush my process.
Some wounds were carried for years,
so I give myself permission
to heal one breath at a time.
I honor the version of me that survived.
The one who endured the chaos.
The one who held everything together
when no one saw the weight I carried.
I thank that version of me.
Because without her strength,
I would not be standing here today.
But today I no longer have to live
only in survival.
I allow peace to enter my body.
I allow my nervous system to soften.
I allow my spirit to remember
that I am safe to grow beyond the past.
What once haunted me
does not get to define me.
Healing is not proving strength.
Healing is learning to breathe again.
So today I release what I cannot control.
I sit with myself in stillness.
I let meditation quiet the noise of yesterday.
Wholeness does not mean perfect.
It means I am returning to myself.
And that return is sacred.
Love and light to all… and so it is.
Rev Angela July | Still I Rise Ministries