Tired of always showing up for everyone but yourself? This column is a real one — a soul-to-soul reflection on what it costs to be “the strong one,” and how to take your power, energy, and peace back.

Yearning for your past partner is a normal process of grieving. These feelings will always be a rollercoaster of days when you’re good, moments when you’re sad, and months of stillness and processing of deeper emotions and rooted issues. The love you have for your person is real, but your inner soul is calling you to love yourself and yearn for your own soul alignment in the same way you yearn for that past connection.