
08/06/2025
🌿 From Survival to Connection 🌿
Some of us grew up in homes where love was present, but not always safe, soft, or steady.
✨Care might have looked like control.
✨Support may have felt like silence.
✨Affection often came second to survival.
Our parents didn’t fail us because they didn’t care.
They simply weren’t always given the tools to respond with emotional presence.
Many carried their own invisible wounds, passed down, unspoken, unprocessed.
This is where healing begins:
🍃By getting curious about what shaped our caregivers,
🍃Without excusing the harm…
🍃But also without carrying the weight alone.
We get to rewrite the story.
To choose connection over protection.
To show up to our lives with intention, awareness, and softness.
🧡 What felt “normal” in your home that you’re now learning to question?
🧡 What would it look like to respond to yourself with care?
Healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.
🌿 Rooted Pathways Counseling & Consulting
📍Champaign, IL | 📞 (217) 213-3405
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