Your Mind is Sacred
After choosing myself, I learned that healing isn’t optional—it’s protection.
After choosing myself, I learned what I must protect;
Over the past few months, I have come into a knowing—
not a whisper, not a suggestion,
but a truth that has settled deep in my body:
My mind is sacred.
It is not a place for chaos to live unchecked.
It is not a battlefield for everyone else’s projections.
It is not a storage unit for trauma that was never mine to carry.
My mind requires nourishment.
My mind requires protection.
And for a long time…
I did not know how to offer it either.
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The past few years have been heavy.
Not the kind of heavy you can explain in a single sentence.
The kind that layers.
Medical detox.
IOP.
Medical leaves.
Broken relationships that once held so much hope.
And beneath all of that—
A mind that bore witness.
To terror.
To racism.
To crime.
To disenfranchisement.
To the quiet violence of navigating spaces that were never built with me in mind.
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And yet…
I am still here.
Not just surviving—
becoming.
Because somewhere in the unraveling,
I gained something I didn’t have before:
Discernment.
I can now feel when something disrupts my peace.
I can now name when something is not aligned.
I can now choose differently.
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Now is the time.
Not to partially heal.
Not to perform healing.
Not to intellectualize it.
But to heal fully.
To tend to my mind
with the same care I have given to others.
To rest it.
To feed it.
To regulate it.
To honor it.
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Because my mind…
has carried too much for too long.
And still—
it has remained brilliant.
expansive.
creative.
alive.
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So today, I make a claim.
Not quietly.
Not conditionally.
I claim healing.
I claim abundance.
And I honor the version of me that stands here now—
Clear.
Grounded.
Regulated.
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Erika today
is no longer negotiating with her peace.
She is protecting it.
She is choosing environments, people, and rhythms
that feel like safety.
She is no longer asking, “Can I endure this?”
She is asking,
“Does this honor my sacred mind?”
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Because once you realize your mind is sacred…
You stop giving everyone access.
And you start giving yourself
the care you always deserved.
Selah