{"id":3415,"date":"2025-09-17T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:01:33","slug":"create-time-for-yourself-love-because-you-deserve-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/create-time-for-yourself-love-because-you-deserve-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Time for Yourself love Because You Deserve Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Always\u2026<br>create time for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because sometimes,<br>we give so much of ourselves to others,<br>pour so much love, so much energy,<br>that when they leave,<br>we are left holding nothing but emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We forget,<br>that we matter too.<br>We forget,<br>that we also need to heal,<br>to breathe,<br>to find our own light again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when everyone else walks away,<br>we stand there confused,<br>hurt, broken,<br>clutching the holes in our hearts,<br>not knowing how to stitch them back together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But listen,<br>time alone is not loneliness.<br>Time alone is medicine.<br>It teaches you to appreciate yourself,<br>to give yourself the attention<br>you\u2019ve been begging the world for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s in that quiet<br>you start making future plans.<br>It\u2019s in that silence<br>you forgive yourself<br>for the mistakes you\u2019ve carried for years.<br>It\u2019s in that stillness<br>you learn the power of being whole<br>without needing applause,<br>without needing someone else<br>to tell you who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alone time teaches you<br>to become more of YOU,<br>not the version people expect,<br>not the mask you wear to survive,<br>but the raw, unfiltered truth<br>that has always lived inside you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So create time to spend with yourself.<br>Yes, you.<br>Take yourself out.<br>Go watch that movie.<br>Dive into the pool.<br>Take a long nature walk.<br>Sit in silence and breathe.<br>Pray. Meditate. Journal.<br>Do anything\u2026 anything<br>that doesn\u2019t involve another person<br>but helps you reconnect with YOU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if you can\u2019t sit with yourself,<br>how will you ever know yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do it at least once a week,<br>and if life gets heavy,<br>then twice a month,<br>or once if that\u2019s all you can manage.<br>But whatever you do,<br>don\u2019t get so busy<br>that you forget the most important person<br>in your life,<br><em>yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always create time for you.<br>Not tomorrow.<br>Not when things settle.<br>Not when someone else makes you feel worthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now.<br>Because your soul has been waiting.<br>Because your heart has been whispering.<br>Because your healing,<br>your peace,<br>your growth,<br>depends on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/one-day-everything-will-make-sense-from-pain-to-victory\/\">One Day Everything Will Make Sense: From Pain to Victory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/walkingshadowpoetrykenya\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Walking Shadow Poetry Compilation Powerful Spoken Word on Healing, Love &amp; Identity 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocoyMka1uQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always\u2026create time for you. Because sometimes,we give so much of ourselves to others,pour so much love, so much energy,that when they leave,we are left holding nothing but emptiness. We forget,that we matter too.We forget,that we also need to heal,to breathe,to find our own light again. And when everyone else walks away,we stand there confused,hurt, broken,clutching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,97,25,98],"tags":[35,49,34,67,50,61,55,53,22,48],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem","category-poetry","category-solitude","category-storytime","tag-poems","tag-poetess","tag-poetry","tag-preciousowoko","tag-spokenword","tag-spokenwords","tag-stories","tag-story","tag-walkingshadowpoetry","tag-walkingshadowpoetrykenya"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1H5A8886-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3263,"url":"https:\/\/walkingshadowpoetry.com\/blog\/they-broke-you-to-make-themselves-feel-better-never-forget-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":3415,"position":0},"title":"They Broke You to Make Themselves Feel Better \u2014 Never Forget That.","author":"walking shadow poetry kenya","date":"April 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Never forget...how they made you shrink,just so someone else could stand taller.You smiled through it,because you didn\u2019t want to cause problems.You stayed quiet,because you thought maybe it was all in your head.But it wasn\u2019t. 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