Dean Family - Victoria's Story - Year 6 - 2017

It's good to be strong but I think it's also good to be weak. To allow yourself to break. To crumble and shatter yourself into a million pieces. It's also good to leave those shattered pieces on the ground, shake off the remaining jagged splinters, and walk away vulnerable into the world. Raw and wounded. It's ok to walk away. Walking away from old thought processes that had shaped me was the only way I was going to survive this. Learning to still enjoy my life even with the weight snuggled against my chest is hard. You'll be feeling great and then sudden panic or overwhelming sadness would overtake you. I can hear a sound, and without thought tears will flow. Still years later my emotions can swing in an instant.

It's ok.

It's ok to cry, to break. It's not only ok, it's healthy. We often don't allow ourselves the time to let our emotions surface and be felt. We are emotional beings and we are going to experience most of the spectrum of emotions. That's healthy. It's NOT ok to live there. Measure defines our strength. Asking for help is a sign of strength. Knowing you can't do it or won't be as successful without help is ok. Ask for help. Finding someone or something to hold onto and anchor you through your battle. You deserve the time to see if these thoughts can change. If these thoughts can be shaken out of reality. If you could feel anything other than that pain. I hope you can. I hope you can find something that reminds you to hang on for one more day, to wait until tomorrow. Hopefully, feel a little light on your cheek. It's hard coming out of the dark. Blind in the light, just trust the brightness, let it burn into your very soul, allow yourself to feel something other than heartbreak, you deserve it. I promise you deserve it. We all do.

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