We don’t talk enough about how hard it is to let go of pain that shaped us. The hurt becomes familiar. The trauma becomes identity. But healing? Healing demands we release what we’ve clung to — even when it breaks us… Some pain becomes so familiar, we start calling it personality.We say, “That’s just how I am” —but what we really mean is,“That’s what I became to survive.” But surviving isn’t the same as living.And there comes a moment in every healing journey where you have to make a decision: Do I stay loyal to what broke me — or do I finally let it go? Because yes, the pain…