09/15/2026
A lot of the deepest damage in childhood is not only what happened.
It’s the indifference around what happened.
Indifference to what you wanted.
Indifference to what you felt.
Indifference to what you said.
Indifference to your no.
Indifference to your fear.
Indifference to your pain.
Indifference to your timing.
Indifference to who you actually were.
And that indifference can show up in a thousand forms.
Sometimes it looks mild and socially acceptable.
A doctor ignoring your body’s protest.
An adult dismissing your feelings.
A parent acting like your needs are inconvenient.
A family system rolling right over your reality.
Sometimes it is far more severe.
But the wound underneath is often the same:
my experience did not matter enough to be met.
That’s the injury.
Not just pain.
Not just violation.
But the deadness around it.
The absence of attunement.
The absence of care.
The absence of a real stop.
And then many of us grow up and keep doing the same thing to ourselves.
We become indifferent to our own exhaustion.
Indifferent to our own no.
Indifferent to our own body.
Indifferent to our own timing.
Indifferent to the way we keep pushing, overriding, abandoning, or explaining away what we feel.
So part of healing is brutally simple:
we have to decide not to be indifferent to ourselves anymore.
Not to our pain.
Not to our limits.
Not to our desire.
Not to our inner no.
Not to the parts of us that were never compassionately held.
Because indifference is not neutrality.
It is a wound.
And when you stop being indifferent to yourself, everything starts to change.
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