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Healing
It seems everyone everywhere everyday has an opinion on healing. What is healing? How do you obtain it? Where do you go to receive it? What is the process?
Today I heard a therapist on instagram say “when you no longer are in search of healing” you are healed to some extent or another.
That seems like a noble pursuit. To have radically accepted that life will be filled with fluctuations of the mind and to have learned to pause, respond, rather than react, and move through life with ease and grace should mark an obtainment of ones healing goal achieved.
But healing is never over. And part of the healing journey is I think in essence an acceptance of that. That we are never fully healed. And therefore to be at peace with that is to have radically accepted in each present moment that the human experience is filled with many emotions, and many experiences, some of which bring us joy and healing, some pain and even trauma.
And so with humility we can embrace our flawed human experience. That in life we will be triggered. And those triggers should we so choose to accept them will act as a gift of where there is, yes, still healing work to be done. Where we can perhaps turn towards those internal not yet fully integrated inner child parts and tend to their needs in a way they might never have been. To reparent ourselves is to be an emotionally mature adult…
