Feeling Broken
An emotional state of deep pain, exhaustion, and disconnection.
It's not a clinical mental illness. Instead, it describes a heavy sense that your spirit or identity has fractured from stress, grief, or trauma.
I have spoken many times of my grief over the past two and a half years after back-to-back losses.
I was truly feeling broken because two of the most important people in my life were gone. My brokenness was not just from those losses; it had a lot to do with me feeling broken for other reasons as well.
As I explained in living or existing, I spent my whole life being there for others and having them make me feel broken because, for most of my life, I have been compared to members of my family who are doing better than most of us, not because they are that much better than any of us, truth be told.
Feeling broken made me begin to question if I was good enough, smart enough to be successful in their eyes, not my own.
I learned that my gifts are my own, and I am already successful in my gift, and they can no longer make me feel broken by their standards.
Feeling broken can form in our minds because we are trying so hard to fit in; we forget that our path is our own; it belongs to no one but us.
My reason for this blog post is so that we stop falling into the feeling of being broken because others make us feel that way.
You are not broken; you are a light in the dark. You are hope for those who need something or someone to hold on to.
