You are fading because you learned to make yourself small. When presence brought danger, when being noticed meant vulnerabilityâyou shrank until you became almost transparent. Now you feel yourself becoming less real, less solid, less present in your own life.
Fading means losing connection to yourself, feeling like you are disappearing even while physically present, questioning whether you really exist. You might be so good at accommodating others that you have forgotten what you actually want, so skilled at blending that you no longer know your own shape.
Living while fading means accepting that you are becoming ghost in your own life, watching yourself disappear, feeling powerless to stop it.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.