What Happens When You Forget — Returning to Yourself with Compassion
A candle representing your inner light — which will always lead you back if you forget
You didn’t lose the light. You just can’t see it right now.
You remembered once.
Maybe even recently.
You felt clear.
Connected.
Capable of love, boundaries, presence, softness, joy.
And then —
it slipped.
Maybe it was the stress.
The old wound.
The long day.
The survival mode you didn’t see coming.
The scream you swallowed.
The scroll that stole your nervous system.
The thing you thought you’d already healed.
Suddenly, it feels like you’re back at the beginning.
Like all the work was for nothing.
Like you’re broken again.
But here’s the truth:
Forgetting doesn’t erase what you’ve learned.
It just means you’re human.
Forgetting Is Part of the Spiral
The path isn’t linear. You know this.
You’ve lived this.
The forgetting is part of the spiral.
And every time you come back to yourself — even shakily —
the remembering lands deeper.
You learn how to return.
How to forgive the fall.
How to soften toward the part of you that still panics, still performs, still pleads to be enough.
That softness is the work.
You Didn’t Lose the Light
The light is still in you.
Even if it’s quiet.
Even if you can’t feel it.
Even if your nervous system has forgotten what safety feels like.
You are not lost.
You’re just in the part of the cycle that asks you to trust the remembering will come.
In The Prism Path…
Forgetting doesn’t mean you’ve fallen off the path.
It means you’re on it.
It means you’re circling back.
It means you’re being invited into integration, compassion, presence.
The work isn’t to stay lit up forever.
It’s to build a relationship with your own return.
Final Thought
This moment is not your undoing.
This moment is a page in your spiral.
And even here, in the forgetting —
You are not broken.
You are not behind.
You are still whole.
You are still home.
How do you remember when you are in a moment of forgetting? Share with us in the comments below?
