Until you lose your peace, you don't truly embrace and understand the importance of protecting it - Morgan Richard Olivier

When a boundary gets violated or trauma occurs, we often realize and prioritize our right to defend our way of life. Or create a new and better way of life. We don't take it for granted that everyone and everything will work together to ensure our peace.

We learn to appreciate the good moments, the kind people, the thoughtful gestures, the clarity, the focus, the sense of control, the calm.

Others will bring their chaos and for a time we might need to dip into that chaos against our preferences. But when we can resurface (resilience), we have the chance to come from gratitude, strength and quiet determination to level up (posttraumatic growth)

Don't give up. Create and enforce healthy boundaries. Focus your energy on the builders and helpers. Offer yourself compassion - for losing your peace in the dysfunction of others or in your own subconscious reenactments of unresolved generational trauma.

You got this. There will be room to take a full breath again soon.