Trauma begins as an unseen initiation. Healing requires more than time, it demands intentional release and integration to reclaim sovereignty.

She waited on the court steps, perfect shoes, perfect dress, perfect terror. He promised he’d come. He didn’t. And that absence carved itself into her bones. A father’s rejection scripts a lifetime: love equals fear, belonging equals waiting. Years later, she sees it, the wound shaped her, but it doesn’t own her. She’s learning that love can feel like peace, and the heart can unbreak.