You can love someone and still walk away.
You can miss them and know they weren’t good for you.
You can be healing and still have days where everything hurts.
We’re not built for neat, black-and-white stories. Our brains, our bodies, our lives—they’re made of complexity. And it’s okay to feel conflicted. It’s okay to hold two truths that seem to pull in opposite directions.
You can be proud of how far you’ve come and still feel tired.
You can believe in your strength and still need help.
You can want peace and still feel angry about what happened.
This isn’t contradiction—it’s honesty. It’s the brain being real about the messiness of being human. Trying to force everything into one clear category—good or bad, right or wrong, healed or broken—only creates more pain.
Naturalism reminds us that reality is layered. Things grow, die, and coexist. Nothing is just one thing. And you don’t have to be either.
Say this to yourself today:
“It’s okay to feel more than one thing. I can hold my truth without needing to explain or fix it.”
There’s space inside you for all of it. Let it be what it is.