Rising Stronger: Healing Your Heart and Reclaiming Your Worth
There was once a man who gave away his heart so completely, he forgot to leave even a sliver for himself. He thought love was supposed to hurt, that sacrifice was proof of its depth. But when it all fell apart, the emptiness that followed didn’t just break him, it reshaped him. He learned that love, real love, doesn’t ask you to lose yourself. It doesn’t leave you begging for answers or chasing after someone who no longer looks back.
This isn’t just his story, it’s all of ours. We’ve all loved and lost, been broken and rebuilt. Heartache has a way of making us question everything. But it also has a way of teaching us everything we need to know about our strength, our value, and our ability to heal.
And today, we’re here to talk about just that, what it means to walk through the fire of heartbreak and come out the other side steadier and stronger. It all starts with one simple step. Let it end.
Let it end. Whatever you’re holding onto, the pain, the questions, the lingering “what ifs”, decide, right here and right now, that today is the day you put a period where someone else put a pause. Not for them, but for you. Heartache has this way of demanding space, even in places it doesn’t belong. It creeps into your thoughts, locks itself away in your chest, and sometimes makes you feel like it’s never going to leave. But it can. And it will. If you allow it.
It’s okay to not be okay for a while. Let it hurt. Feel everything. Cry it out. Scream into a pillow. Sit with the rawness of the pain, because pretending it’s not there doesn’t make it disappear. Heartache is heavy, and no one tells you how to carry it, or how long. The truth is, some people forget you when it’s convenient for them. Forget those who forget you. Your importance doesn’t need to be forced into anyone’s life. Loving someone should never feel like a sales pitch.
And if they return, as people sometimes do, remember how they left. Not with bitterness or anger, but with clarity. People lie, but actions don’t. The way a person treats you is the only story you need to believe. Never forget two things in all of this, how they treated you and what they made you feel. Because those memories will guide you in the future, giving you the strength to recognize what you deserve and the courage to walk away if it isn’t right.
You see, everything happens for a reason. I know that phrase might land differently depending on where you are in your healing, but it’s true. Even this heartache is teaching you something. Maybe it’s showing you your strength, or the value of stillness, the kind that comes when you decide peace is always better than revenge. You don’t need to match their actions, stoop to their level, or endlessly wonder why they didn’t choose to stand in the rain with you when they had the option to stay dry. The right people stand beside you because they want to, not because you beg them to.
And when you start to pick up the pieces, when the weight grows lighter, it’s time to welcome back something you might’ve thought was gone forever, you. Let it heal. Maybe not all at once, and maybe not in the way you imagined, but healing comes. Slowly, quietly, in the little ways. It’s in the moment you realize you laughed and didn’t think of them. It’s in the instant you picture a future without them, and it doesn’t seem so scary. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting what you went through, it means finally understanding it wasn’t your end, just part of your evolution.
Now, my friends, release yourself from any grip it still has on you. Let it go. Not for their sake, but for yours. Heartache doesn’t define you. If anything, it refines you, shaping who you are and what you’ll stand for moving forward. Love will come again, maybe from another person, or maybe, it’ll arrive in the form it always should’ve been in. From you.