I'm starting to feel what I feel rather than act like I've been told I should or how I logically conclude I should. It's very new to me and I feel very strange now, but it's a good kind of strange. I like it.
I suppose it's by extension of this but I also feel stronger, more assertive. I'm not longer opening myself in desperation to the (emotionally) unsafe people in my life. It's a little lonely, I do badly need caring people close to me, but it's not nearly as lonely as, well, looking for love in all the wrong places. I still have a ways to go. I'll get there, I know I will.