Core Collapse

You didn’t disappear you imploded.

When the system can no longer run or fight or flee, it collapses. This is not weakness. This is your nervous system trying to protect you in the only way it knows how.

You may feel blank, numb, still. The world may seem far away. If all you can do is lie still and breathe, then that is enough.

There is no wrong pace. No urgency to return. But if even one thread of awareness is available your breath, your heartbeat, the weight of your body, follow it gently.

You are not alone in collapse. You are not broken. You are loved, even here.