Letting Go of Who You Had to Be to Survive

Worksheet 3

There’s a version of you that learned how to stay small, quiet, agreeable.
A version that adapted to chaos.
That performed calm while storms raged inside.
That protected you the best way she knew how.

This week, we honor her, but we don’t have to stay her.

This worksheet is about softening the grip on the roles we were forced to play and beginning the slow return to who we were before survival rewrote our story.

Because you don’t have to be who you became to survive.
You get to become someone softer now.

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This week’s worksheet includes:

– Four journaling prompts to help you explore survival patterns and who you’re becoming
– One gentle action step
– An affirmation to carry with you
– A creative nudge to express what release might feel like

This is part of my paid subscriber series: Healing in Motion
A weekly practice in reflection, self-tending, and emotional healing—rooted in softness, not urgency.

If this feels like the next right step for you, I’d love to share it with you.