This means taking slow, quiet walks. It means wrapping yourself in a warm blanket and feeling the safety of your own living room. It means treating your body with absolute respect and refusing to let anyone cross your boundaries ever again. Intimacy is built on a foundation of absolute trust. But before you can ever trust another human being again, you have to build—or rather, rebuild—the trust between your mind and body. Your body needs to know that you will never force it to do something it does not want to do ever again.
Healing takes time and immense patience, so do not rush the process just because society tells you that you should be dating or moving on. Let the vault stay locked for as long as it needs to. One day, when you’re surrounded by genuine, consistent, and unconditional safety, your nervous system will naturally begin to lower the drawbridge. But until that day comes, wear your armor proudly. Your body protected you where no one else would. It did exactly what it was designed to do.
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