The answer that once helped you cope may need revisiting when the circumstances become safer.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Strategies are formed for the conditions they were formed in. Something you learned when things were hard kept you steady then, and it deserves credit, but it was shaped by a situation you may no longer be living in. Keeping quiet, expecting little, staying ready to leave: all of these can be wisdom in one season and a limit in the next.

There is no hurry about this. When you feel safe enough, pick one habit that belongs to an older, harder time and test it gently in a small setting. If it still serves you, keep it. If it does not, you are allowed to set it down.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your coping habits outlived the danger that required it?

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