MindSight Health & Wellness

02/14/2026

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day ❤️

02/11/2026

Most people only ever see the outside.

The smile.
The “I’m fine.”
The functioning adult.

But trauma isn’t just what shows on the surface.

Think of us like fruit 🍎

The skin – what the world sees.
You might look okay. You go to work. You answer messages. You show up.

The inside – the feelings.
The anxiety. The emotional waves. The triggers. The body symptoms. The shutdown. The overwhelm. ALL of it lives here.

The core – the deepest layer.
The old wounds. The traumatic memories. The beliefs like
“I’m not safe.”
“I’m too much.”
“It was my fault.”

Healing isn’t about “looking fine” on the outside.
It’s about gently working with the inside… and eventually reaching the core with safety, support, and compassion.

If you’ve ever felt like
“People don’t see how hard this is for me”
— this is why.

Your pain is real, even if it’s invisible. And healing happens layer by layer 🤍

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02/10/2026

At some point, you realise something quietly devastating:

Nothing is coming to rescue you.
No moment where it all suddenly makes sense.
No version of life that arrives fully formed and hands you peace.

That realisation can feel heavy at first.
Almost grief-like.

Because for a long time, hope looked like waiting.
Waiting for healing to finish.
Waiting for clarity to land.
Waiting for someone else to change so your life could finally begin.

But the future doesn’t appear when the pain is over.

It starts forming the moment you stop organising your life around what broke you.

The moment you stop asking,
“Why did this happen to me?”
and start asking,
“What am I still shaping my life around because of it?”

Not in a harsh way.
In an honest one.

The future is built in the small, unglamorous decisions:
Choosing discomfort over denial.
Choosing truth over familiarity.
Choosing yourself even when it feels lonely and unfinished.

This isn’t about forcing positivity or pretending you’re ready.
It’s about understanding that direction matters more than certainty.

You don’t need the full plan.
You don’t need confidence.
You don’t need to feel healed.

You just need to stop living as if the best version of your life exists somewhere outside of your agency.

Nothing magical happens.
But something real does.

You stop waiting to be allowed.
You stop living on pause.
You stop negotiating with a past that already took enough.

The future doesn’t arrive one day and say,
“Here I am.”

It takes shape every time you choose not to abandon yourself again.

And that’s not pressure.
That’s power - reclaimed slowly, imperfectly, and on your own terms.

02/10/2026

You learn this the hard way.

You think people want honesty.
You think clarity will bring connection.
You think naming what’s happening will make things better.

And then you do.

You speak plainly.
You stop softening it.
You stop cushioning the truth so it doesn’t upset anyone.

And that’s when the shift happens.

People don’t lean in.
They pull away.
They minimise.
They reframe.
They act like you’re being difficult, intense, dramatic.

Not because you’re wrong.
But because what you said threatens something they’re standing on.

Truth isn’t rejected because it’s confusing.
It’s rejected because it would require change.

Change in how they see themselves.
Change in what they’ve excused.
Change in who they’ve protected.
Change in the story that lets them feel okay.

Comfort is powerful.
It keeps families intact.
It keeps systems quiet.
It keeps people from having to look too closely at their own role.

Truth doesn’t do that.

Truth disrupts.
It creates friction.
It exposes where silence has been doing the real damage.

So when you start telling the truth, you don’t just lose agreement.
You lose the illusion that honesty is always welcome.

And that can feel brutal.

Because it makes you realise something painful but important:
Some people don’t want to know what’s real.
They want what’s familiar.
They want what keeps them comfortable.
They want what doesn’t ask anything of them.

That doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
It means you’ve outgrown the lie they’re still living inside.

Truth isn’t about being liked.
It’s about being aligned.

And once you’ve seen that clearly,
you stop wasting your breath trying to make reality palatable for people who benefit from not seeing it.

That’s not arrogance.
That’s self respect.

02/10/2026

Healing is when you can acknowledge what shaped you without letting it steer you.



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02/10/2026

When you’re labeled the villain, it’s rarely about truth.
I’s about someone else needing a story that allows them to move forward without facing the consequences of their choices.

Being blamed doesn’t mean you caused the harm.
I'm not saying you're entirely innocent, but I am saying that you are not the cause of their destruction...or their disregard for accountability.

And being painted as the problem doesn’t erase the patterns, decisions, or behaviors that led them here.

In relationships marked by manipulation or emotional immaturity,...accountability often feels like a threat.

So the narrative shifts.
Facts are blurred.
Motives are questioned.
And now, the person who set boundaries, called out the nonsense or stopped enabling...suddenly becomes the “enemy.” (aka the scapegoat)

Here's the truth...
You don’t need to defend yourself to people committed to misunderstanding you.
You don't need to prove yourself to someone determined to mis-labeling you.

Truth doesn’t need your exhaustion or explanation to survive.
If you’re navigating the confusion, self-doubt, or emotional fallout that comes from being falsely blamed, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

📘 Download my FREE Narcissist Survival Guide - it will help you understand what’s really happening, regain clarity, and protect your peace as you move forward.
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02/10/2026

Trauma affects how we see ourselves, others, and the world.
When we catch ourselves in negative self thoughts, it's helpful to ask, "would I say this to someone else? Would I allow someone to say this to my friend or my child?"
When we recognize our negative thought patterns we can begin to flip the script from criticism to compassion.
Having self-compassion isn’t about gaslighting yourself and pretending everything is okay when it’s not. It’s noticing what you're going through, giving yourself space to feel it, and responding with kindness and understanding (the way we would with a friend).

02/10/2026

Shame often hides behind control, anger, detachment, humor, competence, helping others, which is why people say: “I don’t feel shame - I just feel empty / tense / irritated / tired.” Childhood shame doesn’t disappear - it becomes strategy. You don’t heal it by pushing confidence, forcing positivity, or “thinking differently”. You heal it by recognizing its disguises, separating past messages from present reality, and creating experiences of being seen without performance. If shame shows up in your adulthood, it does not mean something is wrong with you. It means something happened in your childhood when your sense of self was still forming. 💛

02/10/2026

If the child’s wellbeing comes second to winning,
that tells you everything.

02/10/2026

In a family that consistently rewrites the narrative to cast itself as the heroes and you as the villain, your nervous system finds itself in a perpetual state of tension and unrest. Such environments often breed confusion and self-doubt, as the truth becomes a malleable concept rather than a steadfast reality. Despite how convincing their version of events may sound, your body instinctively perceives the underlying discord and mistruths. The nervous system, attuned to authentic connections, struggles to heal when surrounded by the constant manipulation of facts and emotions. Healing requires a genuine environment where truth is acknowledged, and all parties are allowed to be both flawed and understood. Your body stores experiences as emotions, sounds, smells, and temperature as reminders of the situation. Anytime you step into a situation that reminds your body of previous harm, it reexperiences that trauma. Your body becomes hypervigilant, your nervous system shifts into overdrive, and it prepares your body for harm. Even if things seem pleasant, that is not how your body can ever feel in that environment.

Thank you to Living Inside My Body for reposting this graphic from Just Know. They are an amazing support and post some great content! Thank you for always Living Inside My Body!

02/10/2026