Terese Sacramento

The moment you stop abandoning yourself is where everything begins to change. There comes a point where you realize…you can’t keep living like this. Not because everything is falling apart on the outside. But because something inside of you is. You’re still showing up. Still holding everything together. Still being “the strong one.” But underneath it all…you’re tired. Tired of pushing through. Tired of ignoring what you feel. Tired of knowing what you need—and still placing yourself last. And...

From the outside, I looked fine. I showed up. I did what I was supposed to do. I kept everything together. But inside… I felt like a walking empty shell. Disconnected from myself. From my body. From my emotions. It was like I was existing — but not really living. The hardest part wasn’t even the exhaustion. It was the quiet realization that… I didn’t recognize myself anymore. I couldn´t feel myself. Somewhere along the way, I had become who I thought everyone else needed me to be....

There have been days lately where I pick up my phone to post something and then just… don't. Not because nothing is happening — actually quite the opposite. It's because what's happening feels too good, too tender, too mine to immediately translate into a caption. I've been in this beautiful bubble with my man. Grounded days, loving days. The kind where time moves differently and you feel held by ordinary life in a way that's hard to put into words. And I think I'm learning that not every...