(Originally written for March 21st, 2023)

Since starting this page, there’s been one thing I’ve had to fight countless times with each post, and that’s throwing out names of people that inspired the posts about negative behaviors. It didn’t stop me from saying titles though, some are more direct than others.

I’ve said again in a previous post how confronting these people is futile, but stating who they are with receipts can help lift the weight of their emotional hold on you.

Honestly, you don’t even have to use evidence for that. Speaking your truth, declaring the need for boundaries, and standing by what you’re against can be enough to hurt them the ways they’ve hurt you.

And for some of us, it’s not about hurting them like that, it’s about releasing the pain they gave us repeatedly.

It’s about ending the hurt of being the scapegoat, the punching bag, and starting the goal to be the breaker of damning cycles.

There’s no room for guilt in the mind of someone that feels they never did wrong. But the more you bring their behavior out into the light, the more it can eat at them and risk self-exposure.

The guilt from their pain isn’t yours to bear. They did that do themselves.

Keep on healing.

D.F