Never Too Broken
If healing is finite, I am far from being healed, but I am not broken.
Topic: healing
If healing is finite, I am far from being healed, but I am not broken.
I’m here today for a lot of reasons, but TWLOHA is certainly one of them.
Maybe you’re like me, wondering if the temptation to harm yourself will ever go away. If I’m being honest, I really wish it would.
I spend much of my day supporting people in their lowest moments. I try to convey that they are worthy, that they deserve support and help, and how important it is that they take care of themselves.
No matter how ephemeral those good moments are, they’re what I live for.
I didn’t realize how many people were in my corner until I actually let them into my corner.
I reached five years of being self-harm free this past October. It was a milestone that often seemed impossible to achieve.
It was a matter of telling myself, “I want to live,” even when all I wanted to do was die.
Today, I share my story of survival. I did not believe that I would live to see my 18th birthday, yet here I am, living.
“What’s wrong with me?” I pleaded. “Am I bipolar or something?”
beyond the clouds, it is there. waiting at an oak table with a mug of donut shoppe coffee and a newspaper, saying, “you’re alive. isn’t that the greatest thing anybody can be?”
It’s possible to live with scars, to feel the same pain you feel right now and to not hurt yourself because of it, to want to stop.
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