Your story isn’t too much. It’s just yours.
Shame makes us believe our stories are too heavy, too emotional, or too messy. But what if the truth is—they’re just waiting to be heard?
There’s a moment I come back to often—not because it was loud or dramatic, but because it marked a turning point.
I was telling a piece of my story to someone I trusted.
I wasn’t crying, but my voice cracked.
I paused in the middle, trying to find words for something I’d never said out loud.
And before I could go on, I blurted out:
“Sorry—this is a lot. I know it’s too much.”
They didn’t flinch.
They didn’t try to stop me.
They just said:
“It’s not too much. It’s just yours.”
That was the first time I really understood how deeply shame can live in our stories.
Not just the shame of what happened, but the shame of how we feel about what happened.
The shame of still remembering.
The shame of still being affected.
The shame of needing to say it out loud, even after all this time.
And maybe the most painful one of all:
The shame of being “too much” for someone else to hold.
But here’s the truth I want you to know:
Your story isn’t too much.
It’s unprocessed.
It’s unwitnessed.
It’s unspoken.
It hasn’t had the chance to stretch its legs outside of your nervous system.
It hasn’t had the safety it needs to unfold.
It’s still holding its breath.
And you?
You’re not too much either.
You’re a person who lived through something real.
And your body has done whatever it needed to do to keep you going.
When I say “story work,” this is what I mean:
The work of coming back to those moments with gentleness.
The work of telling the truth without apologizing for how big it is.
The work of making peace, not by erasing the past, but by integrating it—honestly, slowly, and in good company.
You don’t have to fix your story to make it worthy.
You don’t have to make it make sense to anyone else.
You just have to let it be—messy, nonlinear, real.
You get to be a whole person with a complicated history and a soft heart.
That’s not too much.
That’s being human.
If you’ve been carrying a story that feels like “too much,” I want you to know—it’s not.
It’s just waiting to be witnessed.
Storytelling Alchemy is a gentle, non-performative space to speak your truth, at your own pace, with someone who knows how to hold it.
No pressure to write it perfectly.
No need to explain.
Just an invitation to let your story come home.
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“Fragile moments” is such a beautiful way to put it. Like tiny bits of glassware, sometimes they're not strong enough to be held.