The Mountain That Held Me

A story about safety, silence, and the places that return us to ourselves.

The mountain held her — not with arms, but with breath, memory, and the shimmer of those who came before.

Healing doesn’t always happen in rooms or conversations.
Sometimes it happens on a mountain—
in the quiet,
in the wind,
in the way the earth holds you
without asking for anything in return.

Sometimes becoming whole means leaving.
Sometimes silence is not a void,
but a path.

I didn’t go to escape.
I went to remember I was never alone.

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The first time I felt safe again,
I could finally take a full lung of air.

He was gone,
but pieces of me still trembled.
So I traveled—
not to run,
but to remember.

I found a mountain.
Red rock and sky like prayer.
Air that tasted clean,
like earth unburdened.
Crisp wind.
Tall trees.
Quiet that didn’t make me flinch.

The people were taller than me,
but I never felt smaller.
I felt held.

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I heard the ghosts of ancestral fires
crackling on the wind.
Smelled honey blooming
from invisible bees.
Flowers I couldn’t name
still knew my name.

My breath came steady,
like a drumbeat.
And for the first time in years,
my magic returned—
not as a warning,
but as a welcome.

The terror melted.
The silence softened.
The door I had closed inside myself
opened on its own.

And when it did,
my gift stepped through.
Not screaming.
But smiling.
Saying—You’re home.

The mountain reminded me
I was never alone.
But not all rescues come in silence.
Some arrive with fire in their eyes
and your name on their breath.

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Some places don’t just shelter you—
they restore you.
They remind you that safety is possible,
that magic is real,
and that you were never as alone—
your breath was always waiting for you to return.

@notesformysoulmate

This piece is protected—not to guard the mountain, but to honor the breath, the memory, and the return it held.
Because when silence becomes sanctuary, writing becomes witness—and witness becomes home.
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