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Healing After Heartbreak
A Journey Back to Yourself
There’s a silence that settles after heartbreak.
It’s not the peaceful kind of silence. It’s not the hush that comes with stillness or serenity. It’s a heavy, echoing silence — like the emptiness of a home after someone has moved out, like the moment after a door slams and you realize they’re not coming back. It’s the kind of silence where your own breath sounds intrusive, where even the ticking of the clock feels too loud. Most of all, it’s the kind of silence that sits on your chest and makes everything feel like too much and not enough at the same time.
If you’re reading this, maybe that silence is familiar. Maybe you’re living in it right now.
So before anything else, I want to say something that might feel rare these days:
I see you.
Heartbreak isn’t just the absence of a person. It’s the disintegration of a world you built around them. It’s the loss of a version of yourself — the one who laughed in their company, made plans around their presence, felt safe just knowing they were there. It’s the unraveling of shared rituals, inside jokes, morning texts — little things that no longer have somewhere to land. You don’t just grieve them. You grieve the parts of you that existed only with them.