I Stopped Calling My Triggers Weakness

Dear Delyara, There was a time when every trigger made me feel ashamed. I would react to something small and then immediately judge myself for still being affected, still sensitive, still not over it. I thought healing meant no reaction. No pain. No echoes. Now I think healing means recovering with less self-contempt. I still get triggered. But I don’t talk to myself like I’ve failed because of it. That is a gentler, truer kind of progress.