Healing begins when all parts are allowed to be seen. Rejection created more harm than safety. Dividing the self never led to freedom. Every attempt to exile one part made the whole more fragile. Denial did not protect; it fragmented. Facing what was pushed away is an act of courage. The discomfort of return is necessary and real. What was once feared now becomes part of the healing. Nothing is discarded. Everything belongs. Even resistance holds insight. Integration demands honesty, not comfort. Growth requires staying present with what was once avoided. Welcoming every part is not weakness—it is strength. Trust builds when nothing is left out. This is the way of becoming more whole, more human.
May you welcome every part of yourself
with honesty and strength,
trusting that nothing within you
is beyond belonging.
(inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Letter to the Parts of Me I Have Tried to Exile)