🍨 THE UNTOLD CHAPTER

Welcome, my beautiful reader to The Untold Truth Chapter

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It has been a war I’ve been running from.
And today, I don’t know what to say.

Most days I stay silent,
but my silent cries are loud.
My chest hurts.
My mind won’t rest.
Thinking turns into overthinking,
and every question circles back to the same place
What do I do now?

I find myself curled up in a corner of my own becoming,
trying to survive,
trying to breathe,
trying to scream just loud enough
for someone anyone to finally hear me.

Life is hard.
I remember an old friend telling me that once.
She said it plainly: life is hard.
And I, so free back then, so light,
answered with confidence,
“It’s what you make of it.”

I didn’t understand her.
I didn’t understand the weight in her voice,
the pauses between her words,
the tears she cried on the phone
while I stood on the other side of innocence.

I remember her apologizing
over and over
and I couldn’t grasp why.
I brushed it off, changed the subject,
kept moving forward without looking back.

The truth is, I was blind.
Not because the world hid itself from me,
but because I wasn’t ready to face my own pain.

So I tucked my problems away,
folded them neatly into the back of my mind,
and poured myself into everyone else.
Helping. Listening. Holding.
Anything but turning inward.

And now
it’s only the beginning of January,
and I’m learning more about myself
than I ever dared to back then.

Yesterday, anger found me.
Not loud anger
but the kind that shakes you quietly.
I cried because I felt her again
the girl I used to be
still living inside me.

And I’m not ashamed of her.

I see now how often I show up for others
while forgetting myself.
How I give grace freely
but ration it when it comes to my own heart.

I’m learning that everyone carries both good and bad.
Light and shadow.
And sometimes, if you don’t choose balance,
the darkness tries to convince you
that it belongs there too.

I felt that truth yesterday.
Felt it deeply.
Felt it scare me.

I was afraid the old version of me would surface
the one who pushes people away
even when she loves them.
The one who burns bridges just to feel in control.

And I don’t know the answers yet.
I won’t pretend I do.

I’m figuring it out piece by piece.
Breath by breath.
Love by love.

It’s not an easy road
we all know that.
But somehow,
even bruised and tired,
we keep choosing to live it anyway.

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✨ Motivation:

You are allowed to be in process.
You don’t have to have it all figured out to keep going.
Healing doesn’t arrive all at once it comes quietly, piece by piece.

✨ Bible Verse:

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
— Psalm 34:18

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What I Learned

I learned that facing myself is harder than helping everyone else but it’s necessary.
I learned that anger can be a teacher, not an enemy.
And I learned that the girl I once was is not gone she’s evolving.

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Thank you for sitting with my truth for a moment.
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