Someone difficult leaves your life. A troublemaker moves away, a toxic coworker resigns, a false friend disappears down the road. And you feel it — Relief. Then something better. Elation!

What do you do with that feeling?

The old advice says: wish them well. Send them off with a clean heart. Hope their life goes better wherever they land. That is good advice. It frees you from carrying their weight any further.

But there is a second step, and it is the one people forget, and it should come first.

Wish yourself well.

Because their absence is not just their gain. It is yours. Every day they are gone is a powerful positive day you get back. Every silence where their noise used to be is space for your own peace. You did not just lose a problem. You gained back your full life.

You deserve good people. You deserve good things. And when harm finally leaves your doorstep, that is not a small mercy — it is a mammoth opening for: Freedom. Gratitude. Joy. These are not consolation prizes. They are sincere gifts for you to claim and treasure.

So raise something — coffee, wine, your own hand to your own heart — and say it out loud.

“I wish myself well!”

Say it again, slower, until you believe it and feel it all throughout your body.

“I wish myself well.”

It has an organic, gorgeous cadence to it – “ I wish myself well.”

It is not an afterthought. It is a personal promise to celebrate. A vow to protect what has just been returned to you.

You are not just relieved. You are renewed.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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