This Is Healing

https://sarahlheringer.substack.com/Wife.Witness.Writer.Survivor.Reluctant activist.Relentless truth-teller.I did not ask for this.But I will not look away.On June 4, 2025, my husband Patrick was murdered in our home while protecting me from a man who should never have been free. A man with a violent record, with open warrants, with a past the city ignored—and a blade in his hand. Patrick died in my arms.There are no metaphors for that. Only blood, memory, and silence.What followed was the unraveling of everything I thought was safe.What I write here is not for spectacle. It is not curated grief. It is not a campaign. It is a reckoning.With systems. With silence. With myself.I write because I need somewhere to put it.The grief. The fury. The facts. The failures.I write about public safety because no one else will say