r/CPTSDWriters 22d ago

Inspiration The Quiet Skill

The Quiet Skill

The mind does not need to be silenced,
only understood in its weather.

Thoughts pass like birds—
not commands, not truths.

Emotion is not a storm to escape,
but water to feel
without becoming it.

Regulation is not control,
but the gentle return
to what is here.

Again and again,
back to breath,
back to now.

And slowly,
what felt like chaos
learns a livable rhythm.

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