A personal reflection on healing, reclaiming energy, and choosing self over relationships during seasons of heartbreak and regrowth.

We can’t control life’s weather, but we can learn how to show up for ourselves in it. Healing is knowing what you need to stay emotionally warm on the cold days.

Eight months ago, in the middle of a raw season of my life, I wrote a letter I never planned to share. It was the voice of the woman I used to be — the one who settled, who hoped, who ached. Today, I’m sharing it as a part of my healing and as a reminder to any woman walking through heartbreak that she deserves more than the bare minimum.