This journey is all very much numbing. I know that. You know that. We all know that. There's guilt involved in healing, especially when we reach a point to believe our bodies and mind stop belonging to us for not protecting us, and in turn, we want to give ourselves away from normalizing the impact. We're giving away our power, our resiliency, our strength, our courage, our vulnerability, all of it. We don't want to do that. Our bodies are our temple. They are our home, and our home needs and deserves to be tendered with so much love and so much care, but with patience, time and space. Time itself and being patience with our journey to care of our soul can be an energy sucker when we refuse to put in the work to heal ourselves, to love ourselves, and to show up for ourselves.

We've had to hold our own hands, wipe our own tears, and support  ...