Relationships

“You keep going back because your nervous system thinks survival lives there. Not because it’s love.”

“People talk about the heartbreak. They rarely talk about what comes after. The stillness. The silence. The suffocating quiet.”

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” — Dr. Gabor Maté

Sometimes the place that feels most familiar is the one that broke you.