Interior Alchemy by Natalie Kirkpatrick

We Think Time Will Do the Repair
(But time doesn't know your name)

We think time will do the repair.

But time doesn't know your name.
Time doesn't remember the way your body curled when the call didn't come.
It doesn't know what that silence meant—to you.

You can't outsource the repair to distance.
Or hope the ache just gets bored and leaves.

If there was no completion,
If the conversation ended mid-sentence—or never began,
If your body didn't get to finish the gesture—then no amount of time will soothe the nervous system.

Because what hurts
is not what happened.
It's that it never got metabolized.
It just sits there,
unfinished.

So you cope.
You get "strong."
You start calling it a lesson.
You even try to be grateful.

But strength without repair is tension.
And gratitude without integration is spiritual 
bypass.

You don't need more time.
You need completion.
Which means:

— Letting your body shake the thing out.

— Naming what went missing

—Grieving what you never got

— Saying the line you rehearsed

— Letting the version of you who stayed quiet finally speak.

Because repair isn't passive.
It's participatory.
It's not polite.
It's the body re-threading itself through truth.

And that kind of repair
doesn't come from waiting.
It comes from finishing what was never allowed to end.

Time doesn't heal.
It buries.
You heal—when you unbury what's still alive.

You're not stuck. You're unfinished.
Let the story complete itself—in your own
language.
You don't owe anyone closure.
But you do owe yourself completion.

Let the story finish in your body, not just your mind.