Pieces of M.E. (Mental & Emotional Spaces)

Protect your peace. Remove the violent space from your mind. Learn to love yourself through your trauma. Let your reflection be evidence of love you pour into yourself!

I’ve spent years giving you pieces of me…trying to fix what was broken in you…on your behalf.

Trying to heal you from your wounds and damages

Dodging anger in you unleashed on me due to your insecurities.

Healing your trauma from low self esteem.. While you spent years gaslighting me.

I’ve spent years giving you pieces of me because I thought that’s what love was.

But now, I’m shattered and I’m wounded and the pieces of me I really need are long gone, wasted on your self ass.

I don’t blame you… I blame me. Because you told me who you were…but I saw, what I wanted to see.

You kept giving me signs and reason to leave every time you gaslighted me.

Like.. every time, you made me the butt of your jokes.

Like… every time, you picked others over me.

Like.. every time, you convinced me I didn’t see what I knew I was meant to see.

I’ve spent years giving you pieces of me.

Pieces that I now need and you can’t even bother to give back.

Pieces that you should be rushing to my side trying to mend these open wounds.

Pieces that never belong to you…

You gaslight

I’m gaslit

So burnt out

So I quit

I’ve spent years giving you pieces of me, now I have nothing left to give.

Lesson learned… You can’t fix what you didn’t break. See people for who they are not what you want them to be.

Coach Barnes

Published by Coach Dr. Barnes

Coach Rev. Dr. Xenia Barnes is a distinguished Social and Behavioral Scientist, keynote speaker, and trauma expert whose groundbreaking work bridges academic research with practical community intervention. As the architect of the "Trauma-to-Triumph Transformation Model" and a leading voice disrupting the culture of betrayal in the workforce and marginalized communities, she has pioneered innovative approaches to healing and resilience in urban communities.

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