I no longer need to be untouched to know I’m better

Dear Delyara, This truth keeps saving me. Some things still ache. Some old themes still have weather. Some memories still know how to bruise me under the right conditions. And still, I am better. I used to think healing had to look like complete immunity. Now I think it looks more like scale, proportion, recovery, and the ability not to let one old room become the entire house again. That is happening in me. And I want to honor it honestly.