There are so many different ways to heal.
Different modalities, different therapies
So many different wellness programs
Yoga classes and holistic diets
But does healing really exist?
Why are so many people jumping from one therapy to the next?
Why do people spend years trying to access that unicorn term, like it’s a destination only some people can arrive at?
Healing has become a glorified word people are attracted to.
So many social media accounts, programs and businesses are created all in the name of healing.
What does it truly mean and how does that look for EVERY individual?
“Healing is a multidimensional process of restoring physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual well-being following injury, illness, or trauma.”*
Healing does not mean there will be no more pain and no more triggers. Healing is a multidimensional process.
Healing means learning to feel the pain, learning to grieve, and learning to move through the triggers that show up.
Healing presents itself in quiet moments of movement.
These moments are the process in which we journey on to restore our wellbeing.
By learning how to walk through those moments of pain, and grieve the loss of what was or wasn’t.
By learning to be with our innermost feelings and watching them flow through us, instead of keeping them stagnant.
By learning to trust slowly, in increasing moments of safety in connection.
Healing happens in these small moments, little increments of increased self awareness and safety.
In the small shifts we make to trust and to feel.
Healing takes courage and bravery to look inwards.
There is no destination or final stage of healing.
Healing is a journey we embark on, not a destination we arrive at.
*Source: Hsu C, Phillips WR, Sherman KJ, Hawkes R, Cherkin DC. Healing in primary care: a vision shared by patients, physicians, nurses, and clinical staff. Annals of Family Medicine. 2008 Jul-Aug;6(4):307-14. doi: 10.1370/afm.838. PMID: 18626030. PMCID: PMC2478495.
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