Hollow
If you find yourself in this quiet space, please know that your hollowness is not emptiness. It's rest. Your nervous system has created this protective pause not because you're failing to feel, but because you've been feeling too much for too long.
You don't owe anyone your full emotional range at every moment. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for yourself is to honor this protective absence rather than forcing feelings that aren't ready to surface.
Small Signs of Life
Those micro-pulses of energy, those flickering moments of curiosity, that tentative hope—these aren't signs that you should be further along. They are perfect exactly as they are.
You don't need to amplify these feelings or turn them into proof of your progress. Simply receiving them, acknowledging them, letting them exist without agenda. This is the medicine.
