learning to breathe

          S omething happens unexpectedly when you start healing deeper from something. As it happens you nearly second guess yourself and question that maybe you’re bypassing your emotions or maybe you’re not facing reality anymore. It’s not exhaustion and it’s not tears or anger resurfacing like you may expect.       Yea that’s what happens when you first really address things and take time to sit with the realities of something you went through that you tried to push away but then something shifts and the painful situation while it’s still a part of your story, it’s not the whole story anymore. It nearly sneaks up on you when this happens and it’s not until you stop yourself and say “oh wow I haven’t thought about x, y and z for a bit because I’ve been so focused on a, b and c instead, oh that’s pretty cool” and the a, b and c that you find yourself focused on are things that make you happy and bring you joy.     ...