Keywords: emotional processing , healing process , hypervigilance , manipulation awareness , nervous system recovery , personal growth , rebuilding life , reclaiming self , self- awareness , trauma recovery

But sitting here this evening, I can see the shift. The difference is not that those feelings disappeared. The difference is that I noticed them. That awareness is new. For a long time, I didn’t have that. I didn’t allow myself to have that. Everything in me that was trying to flag that something wasn’t right just got overridden, again and again, because I was focused on him. What he needed, what he wanted, how he was feeling. That took up all the space.

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