✍🏾 Emotional Pain Wears No Cast

You can’t bandage racism.
You can’t stitch up trauma.
You can’t wrap centuries of grief in gauze and call it healed.

But you can name it.
You can investigate it.
You can stop pretending that the pain isn’t there just because you’ve gotten used to carrying it.

This week, I started tracking how the legacy of racism — and the echoes of slavery — have shaped my emotional life.
Not intellectually.
Not politically.
Personally.

And what I found wasn’t just pain.
It was a roadmap.
It was a key to understanding why I’ve struggled with self-worth, safety, and survival

— even when I’ve been doing “everything right.”

🧠 Pain Without Proof

If I showed up with a broken leg, people would help me carry bags.
Hold doors.
Offer grace.

But emotional pain?
The kind that shows up in your nervous system, in your posture, in your silence?

That pain wears no cast.

And because people can’t see it — they don’t believe it.

But I’ve lived it.
I’ve taught through it.
I’ve performed through it.
I’ve smiled through it.
And now I’m ready to heal through it.

📌 Liberation Looks Like This

Tracking emotional pain is hard.
But it’s also liberation.

I’m learning how to say:
🖤 “Yes, I was harmed.”
🖤 “Yes, I’m healing.”
🖤 “Yes, I still deserve joy.”

So if you’ve ever felt invisible in your own struggle — this is for you.

If you’ve ever felt like the trauma was “too old to matter now” — this is for you.

If your emotional pain has no cast, but still limits how you move in this world — I see you.

🪷 You did it. I did it. We did it.

What did we do?

We woke up winning.

Because waking up to your emotional pain is the first step to reclaiming your emotional power.

And that? That’s the work of warriors.

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