May Your Grief, Anger & Hope Guide You🩶

A message to those reclaiming their boundaries, accepting grief and anger as essential parts of nervous system regulation, and maintaining hope throughout the healing journey.

Pausing and listening to the wild birds; my unexpected teachers in hope and nervous system healing.

There’s a moment; quiet, raw, and often inconvenient; when your body whispers before your mind catches up. A tension in your chest. A sinking in your belly. A restlessness that won’t go away. That’s not weakness. That’s wisdom.

When a boundary has been crossed again and again, the body remembers what the mind tries to rationalise. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve been taught to override it, minimise it, justify it, spiritual-by-pass it.

But here's the truth no one tells us loud enough:

Your emotions are a compass. They show you what you care for, what is violated. It is our task, thus, to tend to them: To turn towards them, feel them fully, & let them show us what they will.

Grief, anger, and hope are not enemies of healing. They are part of healing. Grief honors the parts of you that were not protected. Anger defends the parts of you still worth protecting. And hope? Hope is your soul saying: “There is still a future where I belong. And I will build it.”

Me and the wild bird: a quiet reminder that grief, anger, and hope are not enemies of healing; they’re the way home. A visual love letter to feeling fully, bravely, and tenderly.

Feel to Heal

People say being strong means not feeling. That numbness is resilience.

They don’t understand that:

True strength is feeling what needs to be felt, without shame. To feel fully is an act of rebellion in a world that rewards performance over presence. Only courageous & brave hearted people feel what they need to feel rather than hide them under the rugs.

Because healing doesn’t begin when everything looks fine.It begins when you choose not to abandon yourself anymore.When you listen, really listen, to the alarm bells of your nervous system, you are teaching yourself:

• I am trustworthy.

• I am worthy of protection.

• I do not need to shrink to be safe.

Boundaries Are Not Walls,

They’re Bridges to Self-Respect

Every time you honor a boundary, you are writing a new story.

One where your safety is not up for negotiation.

One where your voice matters, even if it shakes.

One where your healing no longer waits for permission.

This isn’t easy work. But it is sacred work.

So if you are grieving, grieve.

If you are angry, let it move through you.

If you are still holding hope, guard it like a lantern in the dark.

Because these emotions?

They’re not obstacles.

They’re arrows pointing you back home.