Life lessons- Losing a father at a young age changes you. Having that loss replaced with a monster rewires you. You grow up not trusting. Not feeling protected. Not feeling seen or heard. You move through life braced for impact. But here’s the part we don’t talk about enough— the healing. Not the polished kind. The kind where you’re still standing, still smiling, still working your way through the waves. The struggle is brutal when you’re in it. And while we hear a lot about childhood trauma, we don’t hear enough about what it takes to heal as adults. So many people carry their hardest chapters in silence. But sometimes sharing the hard parts is the rope someone else needs when they’re knee-deep in the fight, just trying to pull themselves out. If this helps even one person… it was worth saying.