✨ Here’s to rewriting our stories with softness, courage, and the quiet knowing that we were never broken — only becoming. 🤍
I wrote this piece as a reminder that healing often begins with awareness — that quiet moment when we recognize how a past experience has been shaping the way we love, work, or make decisions. If these words speak to you, take a gentle pause today to notice where your story might still be asking for compassion instead of control.
Through my work, I help women rewrite their stories, reclaim their voice, and create lives guided by trust, freedom, and self-honoring choices. You deserve to live a life that feels like yours — not one defined by what hurt you, but by what healed you. 🌿
There’s a story in You Deserve to Be Rich : Master the Inner Game of Wealth and Claim Your Future by Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, that stopped me cold. Troy Millings shares how his parents, after migrating from Jamaica to New York, achieved what many call the American Dream — a home in the suburbs, a place where family and friends could gather, laugh, and believe in what’s possible.
But that dream turned into a nightmare when they lost their home to foreclosure. What followed wasn’t just the loss of a house. It was the loss of safety, pride, and the belief that life could be trusted.
Years later, even when they were financially stable again, Troy’s parents still lived cautiously — turning down opportunities that could’ve saved them money, because the pain of the past whispered: “Don’t risk it. You could lose everything again.”
That’s what trauma does.
It doesn’t just live in the past — it moves in.
It sets up camp in our nervous system and begins to quietly rewrite the script of our future. It tells us which doors to close, which dreams to downsize, and which joys we no longer deserve.
Maybe you know this feeling too. Maybe you’ve wondered why you struggle to trust people, to take chances, or to let yourself celebrate without waiting for something to go wrong.
Sometimes it’s not a lack of ambition or faith — its trauma doing the talking.
We rarely notice it because it doesn’t always look like pain. It looks like overthinking, perfectionism, control, or a deep fear of loss. It shows up in our relationships, our finances, even our creativity. It’s the quiet voice that says, “Be careful — remember what happened last time?”
We rarely notice it because it doesn’t always look like pain. It looks like overthinking, perfectionism, control, or a deep fear of loss. It shows up in our relationships, our finances, even our creativity. It’s the quiet voice that says, “Be careful — remember what happened last time?”
But here’s the truth— once you see it, you start to reclaim your story. You realize the event that changed you doesn’t get to own you. You can thank that cautious part of you for keeping you safe all this time… and still choose to open the window again, breathe, and let new light in.
Healing isn’t about forgetting what happened. It’s about reminding yourself that you survived it — and that surviving means you get to live differently now.
✨ Reflection Prompt
What’s one moment in your life that silently reshaped the way you make decisions or trust yourself?
How has it been “editing” your future — and what new chapter do you want to begin writing?
Sometimes awareness is where the healing begins. When you finally see how an old wound has been shaping the way you move through life, you start to take your power back — gently, one honest breath at a time. Don’t rush it. Healing isn’t a race; it’s a reunion with yourself. Be tender with the parts of you that had to be strong for so long. You’re not who you were back then — you’re the one who’s learning to live, love, and trust again.
“Trauma doesn’t just live in the past — it moves in. It quietly rewrites the script of our future, shaping the doors we open, the dreams we dare, and the joy we allow ourselves to feel. Healing begins when we see it, honor it, and choose to live differently now.” 🌿
Salima
Just me thinking out loud over here