Cammul123 :
Something my therapist once told me about cyclical healing (which is the healing where most days you’re fine and then everything crumbles and you’re not ok for a while again and then you’re ok and then you’re not) I said “it feels like every time I remember *the trauma* everything I built gets torn down and I’m starting again from the foundations…” she said “since you’re already thinking in metaphors, what you described the feeling as is like a demolition, one thing falls and everything collapses to unrecoverable dust. But the reality is, you’re playing Jenga. It’s supposed to fall. You’re supposed to rebuild every time. Yes it’s tiring yes it’s heavy and yes it hurts, but you rebuild, you go about your day taking pieces out of that tower and eventually it’ll fall again. Until one time you build that tower, you take the pieces out perfectly and it never falls again. How many times will your tower fall? Doesn’t matter, maybe hundreds, thousands, millions of times. Maybe it only falls once more. Who cares? You’ll rebuild again. You’ll be okay again. You’re allowed to let the tower fall. No matter where you are in life. You’re allowed to grieve.” I left that session crying because my jenga tower fell and I didn’t feel the weight of it all again, I just saw the trigger, the piece that broke the tower, and I said “I am allowed to rebuild as much as I need, we’ll see how well this rebuild goes.” And I went and stared at some trees to decompress and that was 1.5 years ago… it’s been one day since my tower fell again, a poem brought it all back, my fyp seems to know I’m rebuilding again… and Ykw? It doesn’t hurt as much as last time… maybe this time I’ll rebuild and never have the fall again. Maybe not. That’s okay too. And if you’re still reading, you’re allowed to grieve as much as it takes, no matter where you are in life, no matter what anyone says. The ache will fade again and again. Until one day you’ll let it go for the last time in your life. But until then, keep feeling, keep healing, keep living.
2026-06-18 06:19:46