Coming Home

by Sawyer Cole Hobson

there’s beauty in the breakdown if you just allow yourself to break down.

But questions are necessary as part of your journey. Pull up a seat. Lean in. Listen. And when it no longer serves you, remove yourself from the table.

Healing isn’t linear.

Just remember to create spaces within yourself to heal so you can get through your messiness, healthily.

Growth is important. I always strive to be better tomorrow than I was today.

I’m not telling you to leave your life and loved ones behind and become a monk, but I am telling you there’s something to being by yourself that no other person and no substance can give you: time. Time to heal. Time to think.

Their boxes weren’t mine to fit into.

But the smaller moments seem to hold the most space.

Coming home to yourself is constantly coming out if you’re anything but cisgender and heterosexual.

Sometimes you’re the toxic one.

Healing isn’t always linear. Sometimes we’re the problem. Sometimes we allow our past hurts to hurt us in our present.

But forgiveness, not for them, but for yourself, goes a long way in your journey to healing. Let this be a reminder that you heal for yourself, not for anyone else.

Books give you some place to go when you can’t leave where you are.

It’s like we’re crying in a language no one wants to understand.

We don’t make fun of someone who takes care of their broken arm, so I’m not sure why we continue to downplay people getting help for their broken brains.