Facing your inner brokenness Pt. 2

"You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class." And in a painfully relatable quote from a your favorite movie, you know they are right.

Because time isn't afraid of the messes we make. It never backs away from its work or steamrolls quickly by in an effort to leave us behind. It consistently, reliably, carries on, and us with it. Time certainly does not heal wounds, but it distances us from them a bit, and in that distance we are able to more clearly see the potential for healing than when we were in the eye of our storm. The people who were going to stay, stay, and the ones who were going to leave are gone. You realize that most of the paper planes flying around in your head all those nights eventually land on their own. But even so, even when the dust settles, even when we are 'getting over it', that feeling, it's still not whole...

Have you been here?

You know when your friend calls to check in, and you give her the "I'm really doing better" followed by a list of proofs that show it's true.I know I know, I believe in the healthy lifestyle. The balanced days, the steps towards equal measures of gym time, me time, service time etc. on the path to the best you.But there has got to be more...right? Even on the best days where the check list is completed and my own self-satisfaction is at its peak...there has got to be more.There's got to be more than balanced lifestyles, Keto diets, 'family first' mantras, the year of the 'focus on me', #hustlemore and #dailyinspo etc. etc. etc.I've got to believe these things are the garnishes on an already fullness...they certainly can't patch me up on their own. Can they?

***Read the "Have You Been Here?" Series from the beginning starting here.