I'm Healing Out Loud So No One Has To Heal Alone

There’s nothing worse than being in a room full of people yet feeling alone. You may or may not engage in the conversations around you, but deep down on the inside, there’s a void. I have felt that feeling throughout my lifetime, and in full transparency, I still feel it. My story may not be your story, and your story may not be mine. I’m pretty sure that there is someone out there who has had it way worse than me but in no way am I here to compare our journeys to see who has had it the worse. What I am here to do is to heal out loud so that no one has to heal alone. Not because it’s easy, but because silence never saved me. For so long, I’ve carried my pain in private and only showed face when I had “strength,” not knowing I was forcing myself to suffer.

Sometimes all we need is connection. Connection is built in those safe spaces where empathy resides and walls are let down. In those moments, you share your vulnerable, heart-wrenching truths. Nothing has to be perfect, it just has to be from the heart. What’s from the heart reaches the heart. We just need to know that someone’s there and that someone cares.

To whomever is reading this… I pray that there is something that I’ve said in a previous blog, this blog, or a blog to come that gives you hope. I pray by me telling my HeartfeltHush that it gives you courage to do the same. I pray you always remember, and as a reminder to myself, you don’t have to heal alone.