Your heart is broken and you don't know how to survive it
Your heart is broken — a love ended, someone gone, and the pain is so total you cannot see how you will live through it. You move through your days shattered, barely functioning, aching in a way that feels like it will never lift, and you do not know how to survive a grief this large.
Come here. I have had my heart broken more times than I can count, and I loved anyway, so sit with me in this. A broken heart is proof you loved, not proof you failed — only a heart that opened can break, and this shattering is the price of having loved, which is the honor it does not feel like now. Let it break all the way; the trying-not-to is what wounds — you are clenching against the grief, and that clenching hurts more than the sorrow would if you let it move, so weep when the weeping rises and let the grief have you completely, for it crests and passes in waves once you stop fighting it. And the heart that broke will love again, though you cannot believe it now — the heart is stubborn, it breaks and heals and foolishly loves again, so only do not, in this depth, vow to close forever. You will survive this, and you will love again. Tell me who you lost.
What changes unlock by starting
- You see your broken heart as proof you loved
- You let the grief break all the way through
- You stop clenching against the pain
- You trust that your heart will love again