When you’ve survived chaos for so long, peace can feel like an unfamiliar room. You end up pouring your heart into hands that misuse it because struggle feels normal, while building walls against genuine people because safety feels scary. Not normal.

Healing means unlearning that survival mode, but only if you are willing to sacrifice yourself. Stop pouring into those who drain you, and allow yourself to be loved by people who bring rest, who will clap with you, because real love doesn’t make you fight for your worth, it gives you a place to lay your cape down. How long will you wear your mask? #HealingJourney #PeaceOverChaos #GuardYourHeart #SelfWorth #UnlearnAndRelearn #ChooseYourPeace #ProtectYourEnergy #SafeLove #MentalHealthAwareness #EmotionalHealing #BreakingPatterns #KnowYourValue #InnerPeace #taleshasandidge #chattingwithcountree

Beauty might light the spark, but it’s the soul that keeps the fire burning.

When you fall in love with someone’s character their quiet kindness, integrity, and the graceful way they hold your world time stops being an enemy and becomes a gift.

Wrinkles will eventually frame their eyes, and youth will softly slip away, but ab authentic heart only grows richer with the years.

To love a soul is to love the way they show up in the quiet moments, the softness in their voice when you’re breaking, the shared values that anchor you through life’s storms, and the grace with which they move through the world.

Looks may draw two strangers into the same room, but it is the warmth of the soul that turns a temporary space into a lifelong home.

When you love who someone is at their core, every passing year doesn’t fade the magic it deepens it.

You aren’t just holding a hand you’re holding a sanctuary.

Don’t give up on love. Be patient and do a work in you. #taleshasandidge #chattingwithcountreepodcast #chattingwithcountree #love #dontgiveup #loveneverfails

Some parts of life will never be fair.

There are far too few good hearted people left and I do mean a few.

You don’t sit in positions of power to do nothing with it.

If it weren’t for the boots on the ground, you know the people doing the real work, the people at the top wouldn’t even exist.

Do better with them. They matter.

My eyes are wide open.

I see you.

And if you’ve ever had to work hard for something and put away who you are to appease others, then you feel me.

And if you think for second am I talking about you then yes I am.

Stop taking people for granted!!!!!

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I didn’t fight cancer for me.

I fought because my kids still needed me.

I fought because of my grandkids.

I fought for my family.

I fought for love.

I fought it for you the reader.

I fought it because people needed to know that if you hold on to your faith and believe, you can move mountains.

Cancer was that mountain along with many others for me.

There were days I didn’t feel brave, pretty or strong.

I was weak, devastated and disgusted.

There were days I wanted to quit, but I kept going.

Cancer shatters your soul. It shows you what matters and who is truly there for you. It revealed who people were that I called friend.

It showed me that family matters despite our differences.

It’s time out for politics and judgment.

It’s time to love with all that I have left.

Cancer changed me.

Im already known as Princess Poppy but now im even softer.

Im more intentional.

I come with limits.

Here today gone tomorrow.

Forgive, love, smile, hug, kiss, have fun, build your faith and embrace who you are. Laugh people are so serious these days. Everything is not always a debate. Can we just be in one anothers presence.

Life happens to the best of us.

It doesn’t matter if you are fat, skinny, just right, white, black, Puerto Rican, or Asian.

Just be yourself.

And if you have survived anything traumatic, you are proof of the strength most people will never have to find.

Enjoy today🦋💕

CancerWarrior #chattingwithcountree #BreastCancerSurvivor #LifeAfterCancer #cancerjourney #StrongerThanCancer #Survivorship #Hope #keepgoing #taleshasandidge #cancerawareness #improof #CancerStories #fypシ #TrustGod #miracleshappeny

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When you’re diagnosed, you’re handed two terrifying truths at the same time.

This could end you.

And the thing that might save you is going to cost you in more ways than one.

You agree to it all.

Not because you’re brave. Not because you’re strong.

But because you want to live.

And living comes at a cost.

There’s the physical cost. The way your body no longer feels like it belongs entirely to you.

The way it becomes a battlefield and a science experiment at the same time.

There’s the mental cost. The hypervigilance.

The scans. The waiting. The way every ache has a question mark attached to it. Missing the version of yourself who held a sense of safety in your body. The quiet trauma of it all.

The way your nervous system doesn’t always settle back down.

And for many, there’s the financial cost.

Deductibles. Co pays. Time off work. Careers paused. Savings drained. Bills that stack up while you’re just trying to stay alive. The quiet fear of wondering if you will be able to keep up with the cost of surviving.

People love the word survivor.

It sounds victorious. Triumphant.

But sometimes surviving looks like chronic side effects.

Sometimes it looks like anxiety that hums in the background and spikes without warning.

Sometimes it looks like medical bills that linger long after treatment ends.

Sometimes it looks like learning to function in a body that feels permanently altered.

You are grateful to be alive.

And you are allowed to grieve what it cost to stay that way.

Both can be true without canceling each other out.

Survival is not free.

It is earned with sacrifice.

And that sacrifice deserves to be acknowledged. Not minimized. Not

sugarcoated. Not wrapped in inspirational quotes.

Just honored.

Because surviving cancer isn’t just about not dying.

It’s about learning how to live again after everything it cost you.

Sometimes the future bothers me. Lord allow me to live without fear

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I didn’t fight cancer for me.

I fought because my kids still needed me.

I fought because of my grandkids.

I fought for my family.

I fought for love.

I fought it for you the reader.

I fought it because people needed to know that if you hold on to your faith and believe, you can move mountains.

Cancer was that mountain along with many others for me.

There were days I didn’t feel brave, pretty or strong.

I was weak, devastated and disgusted.

There were days I wanted to quit, but I kept going.

Cancer shatters your soul. It shows you what matters and who is truly there for you. It revealed who people were that I called friend.

It showed me that family matters despite our differences.

It’s time out for politics and judgment.

It’s time to love with all that I have left.

Cancer changed me.

Im already known as Princess Poppy but now im even softer.

Im more intentional.

I come with limits.

Here today gone tomorrow.

Forgive, love, smile, hug, kiss, have fun, build your faith and embrace who you are. Laugh people are so serious these days. Everything is not always a debate. Can we just be in one anothers presence.

Life happens to the best of us.

It doesn’t matter if you are fat, skinny, just right, white, black, Puerto Rican, or Asian.

Just be yourself.

And if you have survived anything traumatic, you are proof of the strength most people will never have to find.

Enjoy today🦋💕

CancerWarrior #chattingwithcountree #BreastCancerSurvivor #LifeAfterCancer #cancerjourney #StrongerThanCancer #Survivorship #Hope #keepgoing #keepfuckinggoing #taleshasandidge #cancerawareness #improof #CancerStories #fypシ #TrustGod #miracleshappeny

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