Showing Up: The Courage to Begin Again

There's nothing small about starting -
Especially when you've had to start over.
more times than you can count.

This isn't the flashy beginning.
It's the quiet one.
The kind where no one's watching,
and everything still aches,
and you're not even sure why you're trying again.

But you do.

Not because you're cured. Not because it's easy.
But because something in you still reaches for life -
for motion, for meaning.

This isn't about fixing yourself.
It's about witnessing the version of you that showed up anyway.

The woods don't ask for credentials.
They don't check your energy levels at the gate.
They just receive whoever arrives.
And that's enough of a beginning.

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*Peer reflection, not therapy advice. Your healing journey is uniquely yours.*