My ability to let go increases every single day.

Skills that improve daily rarely feel like they are improving daily. Ask anyone learning a language: the plateau weeks feel identical to each other, and then one afternoon you follow a conversation on a bus and realise something shifted while you were not looking.

This works the same way, with worse feedback. There is no test to sit, and one bad week can feel like proof that the whole thing was lost.

It was not. The reliable sign is never that the thing stopped hurting. It is that it takes up less of the day than it used to, and that you got back to your own life quicker than the time before.