Healing Is A Change Maker

Healing is a change maker.
You can’t begin a healing journey
and stay the same.

And it doesn’t just change you,
It changes everything around you.

It’s like someone turned your life into
a messy pile of Lego pieces.

It can be terrifying, and so lonely.
So, you immediately start rebuilding,
but some of the pieces are missing,
and some are completely new,
and it’s impossible to build what you had.

And for a while, you try to put them back
in familiar ways like visiting
places you used to know
to remember who you used to be.
But all you find is a ghost of who you were.

Everything you’ve ever known to be true,
somehow isn’t anymore.
You have wild new thoughts that make you feel
alive and terrified.

Sometimes you think you won’t survive
the pain of having your whole life erased.

But you will.

Because Lego pieces aren’t really that scary.
You can build whatever your heart desires.
The trick is knowing what this new heart of yours
really wants.

But first, you have to push past the fear,
because fear is a sneaky life-stealer.
You have to lean into the changes,
because you can’t stay the same,
and deep inside you know that.

Once you see the power of where you are,
it helps ease the pain,
gives you something new to hold.

And the best part?
If you don’t like the thing you are building,
you can start again,
over and over,
because every day is a new day.
Every day you can shake off the person you were,
and transform into something stronger.
Softer.
Freer.

It’s not easy.
It takes grit.
And hope.
And a kind of faith that feels
impossible some days.

But remember,
you’re bigger than these tears,
and the fears that life will lose its magic forever.

You are bigger than every life-stealer out there.

And you can build whatever you want.
Even a life that makes you happy.
Especially a life that makes you happy.

And isn’t that a kind of miracle in and of itself?

Writing Prompt:

What part of your life feels like a pile of pieces right now? What might happen if you stop trying to rebuild the old and listen to what your new heart wants instead?