Scars are the parts of your story that prove you made it past a hard chapter.

A mark left by something difficult is evidence of survival, not only of damage. Whatever caused it has ended, and you are the part that continued, which is the piece that gets forgotten when you look at it. Healing rarely leaves things exactly as they were, and that is not a failure of healing.

Be careful about the story you tell yourself when you notice one. Try reading it as a record of something you came through rather than something that was done to you. If it is still raw, there is no obligation to reach that reading yet.