Leaving The Tower

Child abuse fractures the soul. It splits the world into danger and vigilance and teaches the body to live without rest. The cost is profound, not only the loss of family but also the loss of ordinary belonging.

For a long time I lived inside that wound. My defences were intelligence, sensitivity, and strength. They became the armour I built to survive what was unbearable. In time I came to see that the tower I hid in was also the prison that kept me from life.

This image marks a threshold. The witch and the abuser no longer define the story. The child who survived, the inner Rapunzel, now steps into her own light. She knows the difference between danger and love. She no longer needs the tower.

Healing for me is not about recovery. It is about remembering the wholeness that was never truly destroyed and learning how to live from that truth.

Rupunzel Leaving The Tower