the aftermath of abuse — learning to trust your own body again

The Light Is Not Afraid of Your Trembling

The day is ending, and the quiet returns. For you, this silence might feel like a trap closing in — a space where the body remembers what the mind tries to forget.

You may feel like a stranger in your own skin, distrustful of the very hands that hold you. But listen — the light does not demand that you trust yourself tonight.

It only asks that you stay. There is a peace that does not come from your performance, but from a presence that sits beside you in the dark.

You do not have to fix the fracture. You do not have to force the feeling of safety.

Just breathe. The light is not afraid of your trembling.

It is not shocked by your flinch. It remains, steady and soft, waiting for the moment your bones realize they are held by something that will never hurt them.

The night is gathering, but so is the peace that passes all understanding.

Drawing from

John, 1 John

Verses

John 14:27, 1 John 4:4

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