Getting over something doesn’t come with a progress bar. You just notice one day you went a whole afternoon fine.

Healing does not report itself while it happens. There is no number climbing somewhere, no signal that you are sixty percent through, and the absence of that signal can make you believe nothing is moving. What actually happens is quieter: an ordinary stretch of hours goes by without the weight, and you only catch it afterward.

Stop auditing yourself for improvement every morning. When you do notice an easy hour, let it register rather than treating it as a fluke. Those hours are the evidence, and they arrive before you feel ready to trust them.