Healing isn’t loud
Not all healing looks like growth. Some of it looks like staying.
Healing isn’t loud. It doesn’t always arrive as light or clarity or sudden peace.
Sometimes it’s just staying.
Staying when every part of you wants to run. Staying when silence feels heavy.
Staying when progress feels invisible. Healing can look like breathing through the discomfort. Letting the day pass without demanding answers. It’s choosing rest instead of explanation.
Softness instead of self-judgment.
It’s choosing not to disappear on the days you feel unfinished. Not whole. Not ready. Healing isn’t loud. But it is brave. And sometimes, staying is everything.
And maybe that is enough for now. Not answers. Not certainty. Just the quiet courage to remain present
when everything in you once wanted to vanish. Healing doesn’t ask you to become someone new. It asks you to stay long enough to remember who you already are.
Healing isn’t loud. Sometimes it’s the courage to stay.
About the Creator
Diana Sh
I write for those who feel deeply — moving through burnout, healing, grief, intuition, and becoming themselves again.
Eating in the dark
Deep into the night, I lit up a candle and served myself a plate of food. As I took my first bite, it tasted less vibrant which was exactly what I wanted that night. I wanted a less sensitive experience and an unsatisfied bite actually satisfied my mind. The flame from the candle rocked back and forth, side to side. It seemed to push its energy towards me every time it moved and it rocked me back and forth, side to side. I felt drunk after a while and the food tasted even more tasteless. My surroundings started to shift in motion on all directions like a Van Gogh painting. It was now time for some real wine. I want to get black out drunk tonight.
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