Protect your heart, but don’t overpay for protection.

I can't guarantee you that more pieces won't be left at your feet for you to collect the next time you dive into something with your whole heart. What I can guarantee you is that you'll sabotage healing all the internal chaos by trapping your emotions and closing yourself off to authentic emotional experiences and connections. It's easier to withdraw, to stay guarded, to refuse everyone access (yourself, too). You reject light that tries to enter your stubborn pathways when you're hurting because you'd rather simmer in the darkness.

"I trust the night more than I trust the day." — Melissa Tripp

The truth is, pain overstays its welcome. Your heart feels like a thousand knives so you don't bother with a pulse. You don't care to reconnect because it's the connections you've hosted in your heart that have cut you the deepest. Find more productive ways to approach it (pain), to process it, to feel it, to share it. Let it water you where you hurt the most. Because, you'll grow from this.

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