🌹 Redefining Strength 🌹

🌹I had a conversation with my 25yr old daughter recently about what it truly means to be a strong woman.
For years, people told me I was strong, strong for staying, strong for enduring, strong for surviving everything life threw at me.
But I told her the truth, THEY WERE WRONG!!!

I wasn’t strong, I was broken!
I was a woman who mistook endurance for strength and silence for peace.

A strong woman doesn’t allow herself to be destroyed by the people she loves.
A strong woman doesn’t accept abuse, not from a husband, not from her children, not from anyone.
But I did!

I allowed their anger, their words, and their actions to strip away everything that made me who I was, my worth, my dignity, my sense of self. I became just a shadow of the woman I once knew, lying in the ruins of the love I kept trying to protect.

For years, I told myself I was strong because I stayed.
But now I understand, true strength isn’t found in staying silent through pain.
It’s found in standing up, speaking out, and refusing to be broken again.

I wasn’t a strong woman then…
But I’m becoming one now. 💫