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This Will Change How You See Pain Forever

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • Apr 17
  • 10 min read

Have you ever longed to be someone

unmovable someone who remains calm

amidst criticism untouched by rejection

steady through betrayal and loss

have you ever imagined a day when the

quiet ache inside you the one hidden

behind smiles and small talk finally

goes silent maybe you're exhausted Not

from life itself but from the endless

performance it demands From the mask of

strength you've worn so long it's begun

to feel like your skin What if all

you've ever wanted was permission to

exhale even just once here's a truth you

rarely hear As long as you keep running

from pain it will keep chasing you As

long as you numb suppress distract your

suffering becomes your compass

Everything that wounds you from the

outside only holds power because

something within you is still open still

raw You are not fragile for feeling this

way You are simply human The difference

is some people just got better at

pretending than

others Carl Young one of the deepest

thinkers of the psyche once said "We are

not what happened to us We are what we

choose to

become This is the doorway The escape is

not through indifference not through

building

walls It is through

integration The courage to walk toward

your shadows instead of away Because

real strength is not found in your

ability to avoid pain but in your

willingness to face it Bleeding shaking

but

aware And if you're still here still

listening this message found you for a

reason This isn't just for anyone It's

for you The one who's tired of being at

the mercy of your emotions Tired of

bending and breaking under every harsh

word Every unexpected silence Every time

someone pulled away without

explanation you feel powerless like

others hold the strings to your

peace But what if it didn't have to be

that

way what if the reason you're hurting

isn't because of what others did but

because of what it touched inside of you

maybe it's not the betrayal itself but

what it confirms in you that you're not

enough

Maybe it's not the silence but the echo

of abandonment you felt long before The

real damage doesn't come from the

outside It comes from how deeply those

moments dig into wounds You never knew

we're still

bleeding Jung taught that the pain we

feel in the external world mirrors the

parts of our inner world we've yet to

face

This is why two people can experience

the same moment One walks away unchanged

and the other is

shattered It's not the moment

itself It's where it

lands And if it lands in an open wound

it will hurt Now comes the part you

might not want to hear You still suffer

because somewhere deep down you believe

you can control how others treat you You

believe if you're just good enough kind

enough strong enough you'll be

safe But control is a

mirage And as long as you keep reaching

for it you'll keep

breaking If you want to stop suffering

stop trying to protect yourself from

pain You don't need more control You

need more

awareness The moment you understand that

outside forces only hold power when they

stir something unresolved inside of you

that's the moment you begin to reclaim

your

life This is the real battlefield your

unconscious mind The part of you that

you don't see don't understand and don't

control That part controls you And

that's where we're going next Wake up

You've been lied to You're not in

control Not as long as you live on

autopilot Reacting to life instead of

responding Feeling waves of sadness

anger fear without knowing where they

begin Making choices you later regret

sabotaging your own progress

Young said "Until you make the

unconscious conscious it will direct

your life and you will call it

fate." That is exactly what's happening

The anger that erupts the despair that

floods in for no clear reason the

anxiety that wraps itself around you

when everything seems fine These aren't

random They are messages whispers from

the parts of you that you've buried but

never

healed Jung called this dark terrain the

unconscious Not a fog of forgotten

thoughts but a living breathing force

filled with memories traumas fears and

desires you refuse to

face But just because you don't see them

doesn't mean they've disappeared

They've just found new ways to surface

through relationships that drain you

Through cycles you can't seem to break

Through that voice inside that keeps

telling you "Something's wrong but I

can't name it." You wonder why some

comments destroy you while others brush

them off It's not about the comment It's

about the wound it touches And if it

still hurts it's because it still lives

in you You never healed

it You just swept it under your

emotional carpet and now you trip over

it again and

again Jung said "We can't change what we

don't accept." And yet you keep

resisting yourself judging your emotions

suppressing your needs hiding your fears

But repression doesn't liberate you It

cages

you Your unconscious doesn't disappear

because you ignore it It grows louder It

becomes the toxic partner you return to

The job you hate but can't

leave The storm of anxiety that arrives

when you finally feel

peace This is not bad luck This is your

soul demanding to be seen So what's the

answer it's not more avoidance It's

integration Because becoming untouchable

doesn't mean becoming invincible It

means becoming

whole What does it really mean to be

someone

unshaken to be

untouchable not in arrogance but in

truth

Most people think it means shutting down

putting up walls building armor thick

enough to block the world They say "I'm

fine." When they're falling apart they

convince themselves that caring is

weakness But the bleeding

continues just beneath the

surface And over time it turns into

corrosion Because the problem is never

in feeling The problem is in not knowing

why you feel in not understanding where

the pain comes from Jung said "Know all

the theories master all the techniques

but when you touch a human soul be just

another human soul."

And you buried behind your performance

your resilience your carefully curated

identity are aching to be

seen Not for your strength but for your

truth Emotional strength is not found in

denial It's found in integration in the

bravery to bring your shame your doubt

your fear into the light You don't

become untouchable by walling off your

heart You become untouchable when

nothing within you is

disowned When you've sat with every part

of yourself light and shadow and made

peace with it That is freedom The

freedom to respond instead of react The

power to choose instead of collapse

Young called this the process of

individuation The becoming of who you

truly are Not the image you

project not the role you

perform but the union of your entire

being And here's the twist no one tells

you The more you run from pain the more

it finds you The more you try to stay

unaffected the more fragile you become

But when you embrace your wounds when

you stop pretending and start listening

nothing outside you can undo you This

takes

courage The kind of courage that cracks

you open that strips away the ego that

demands you

feel Because within your pain a door

waits to be

opened Let's walk through it From a

young age you were taught that pain

meant weakness that crying was failure

that emotions were something to fix or

hide So you began to escape to build

distractions to harden But pain doesn't

vanish when ignored It transforms into

anxiety into rage into apathy into that

creeping sense of dread that wakes you

in the night with no name

Unfelt pain digs tunnels inside of you

slowly collapsing your inner

world Jung saw this differently He

believed suffering was sacred a message

from the soul a signal that something

within you is desperate for

change He once said "Depression is like

a woman in black If she turns up don't

shoe her away Invite her in Offer her a

seat and listen to what she has to say

But you don't listen You

distract You scroll You

silence You

numb What if instead you listened what

if pain isn't the enemy but the

invitation suffering cuts so deeply only

because you are still resisting yourself

One part of you wants

transformation The other is terrified of

what must be left

behind This is where pain is born in the

tension between who you are and who you

are

becoming Transformation is not clean It

is not comfortable It is a dying a

burning down of beliefs identities

relationships that no longer serve you

And in that fire something truer

emerges It is only when your defenses

collapse when the performance ends that

you begin to see yourself clearly And in

that seeing there is

liberation Because beneath the ruin lies

the raw material of your rebirth

Jung knew this Suffering is not the

breakdown It is the

beginning But most people turn back They

leave the path It gets dark It gets

lonely So they return to what's

familiar Not you You are still here

Which means you're ready Ready to cross

through And in the next part we'll walk

together through that final valley

Because on the other side of this pain

isn't more suffering It's you whole

awake free Let's keep going Part two the

descent and the rising You're still here

That means you didn't run You didn't

numb it away You didn't lie to yourself

and call it healing You stayed You felt

And that alone makes you one of the few

Most people never make it past the

surface They build prettier masks They

collect self-help quotes like armor But

you you looked inward You sat with the

storm You chose to descend Because

healing isn't a light

switch It's not a moment of clarity or a

sudden release It's a long aching

unraveling and you're in it

now But let me warn you this part might

hurt more than anything

before

Why because now you're seeing it The

patterns the reasons the ways you were

taught to betray yourself for love The

way you stayed small to feel safe The

way you apologized for taking up space

Maybe you're realizing the love you

thought you had was never love Just

control just

conditions just

performance Maybe you're remembering how

often you silenced your truth just to be

accepted How often you stayed where you

weren't wanted how often you became

someone else just to feel worthy This

grief you

feel it's not just about the past It's

about the version of you that lived

there and now that version is

dying Let

it because you can't become who you were

meant to be if you're still protecting

who you had to be

This is what Jung called the death of

the false self The breakdown of the ego

identity you built just to survive And

when it crumbles it feels like you're

crumbling too But you're not You're

shedding And what

remains

stillness And in that

stillness something new begins to

breathe

It's soft at first like a whisper

beneath the rubble A voice you almost

forgot Your voice not the one shaped by

fear or shame or

guilt The one that was buried beneath

them This voice doesn't beg to be loved

It knows it is love It doesn't prove

itself

It simply

is This is your

essence The core of

you Not your trauma not your

achievements not your

pain just you And you're beginning to

feel

it You're not just reacting

anymore You're

observing You're pausing You're

choosing Where once there was

chaos now there is

space And in that space

power The kind of power that comes from

knowing I am

whole even when I am

healing This is the moment your life

begins to shift

Not because the world changed but

because you

did You stopped looking for someone else

to save you You realized no one is

coming And strangely that didn't break

you It freed you Now you stand in your

pain in your

fear in your longing not as a victim but

as a witness

You see your story You own your

story And then you rise But rising isn't

what you thought it' be It's not

loud It's not dramatic It's not posted

for likes It's

quiet It's the way you say no without

guilt It's the way you choose peace over

chaos

Even when chaos feels

familiar it's the way you stop chasing

people who only loved the broken version

of

you It's the way you come home to

yourself again and again without needing

to be fixed You're not trying to be

untouchable anymore because you already

are Not because you're

numb but because there's nothing left in

you to

prove You've touched the depth of your

soul You've made peace with your

darkness And

now nothing outside of you holds power

over

you They can reject

you You'll still love

yourself They can misunderstand you

You'll still speak your

truth They can leave and you'll still

remain because you

remain And that is the real freedom Yung

spoke of The freedom not from pain but

through it The kind that can't be taken

The kind that lives at the core of who

you are

And now you're finally meeting that

person Not the one you tried to be Not

the one you were told to

be but the one you've always

been The work isn't done It never

is But you're no longer afraid of it

because you're no longer afraid of

yourself Welcome

home I am not broken I was never meant

to be whole in the way the world wanted

me to

be But I am complete because I carry

both light and shadow within me I have

met the beast within Not to cage it but

to understand it to listen and to

forgive There is no enemy now only

echoes of fear of shame of

pain And I no longer run from them I sit

beside

them I offer them

warmth And in return they whisper

truth I do not seek control anymore I

seek presence

A life who lived with open hands not

clenched

fists I am not the mask I

wore not the silence I

kept not the wounds I tried to hide I am

the

witness the one who stayed even when it

hurt

I have died a thousand tiny deaths and

with each one something false fell

away

Now what

remains is

real This is not

transcendence This is

grounding This is

integration the sacred union of what was

denied with what was always

true I walk now not as a

fragment but as a rhythm a

harmony a soul remembering its own

name I have

become what I was always meant to be I

am home

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