There Is No Health Without Mental Health (18/21)

Sometimes, we don’t get the apology we need to heal from the trauma someone else caused.

What’s hardest is realizing the responsibility to recover still falls on us.

It’s not just the pain of what happened—it’s the weight of everything that comes after.

Trauma may not be our fault, but the journey to heal becomes ours.

The lack of an apology keeps us stuck in that pain, holding onto the hurt long (often even years) after the moment has passed.

When we don’t heal, we give away our emotional power, allowing the person who caused the trauma to still have an invisible power over us, even years later.