Choose Life: Dysfunction Can Be Healed

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  Coming from extreme dysfunction your perspective can be somewhat warped (bent or twisted out of its true shape). Not because there is something wrong with you, but because dysfunction has a way of teaching you things that were never meant to be normal. You learn to survive in environments that require constant adaptation. Over time, those adaptations can begin to feel like your identity. You may mistake chaos for love. You may confuse hypervigilance with wisdom. You may believe that carrying everyone else's burdens is your responsibility. You may think your worth is tied to what you do rather than who you are. When dysfunction is all you've known, it becomes the lens through which you view yourself, others, and the world around you. But it doesn't have to stay that way. Healing begins when you realize that you have a choice. A choice to question what you've always believed. A choice to challenge unhealthy patterns. A choice to stop normalizing what wounded y...

Self Discovery & Healing


 

These video clips are glimpses of my beginning stages—when I chose solitude over noise, stillness over distraction. I was separated, yet I was being set apart. It was during this time that I found a home church and started becoming intentional about what I allowed into my spirit. If it didn’t apply—I learned to deny.

We’re all made differently. Just like we don’t share the same blood type, we don’t share the same healing path. I tried therapy and counseling, but it didn’t work for me. What did work was faith. Awareness. Self-care. Self-love. And a deeper relationship with God.

When you take time to know yourself, to sit with yourself, you stop searching for answers in places that can’t sustain you. The real answers are within. Sometimes, the best friend you’re looking for... is you.

Journal Prompt: Embracing Stillness

 What have I learned about myself when I slowed down enough to truly listen?

 

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