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Sometimes the people who loved you in your wound can't quite recognize you in your healing. And the distance that follows isn't a betrayal. It's growth.

In this episode, we explore what it really means to outgrow the people you love. Not cutting people off, not labeling anyone toxic, but understanding why healing changes our relationships, and how to tell the difference between distance that comes from a healed place and distance that comes from an open wound.

We talk about why we meet people at the wound we're in, the rising culture of cutting people off and what it gets wrong, the pressure to stay bound to family no matter the cost, and how releasing someone with love is different from punishing them with distance.

If you've ever felt guilty for growing, or grieved a relationship that simply ran its course, this one is for you.

Self first is not selfish. It is self-honoring.

With much love, dear soul.

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