When youre wounded, you often go through a progressive, linear repair.
You get better, until one day, you are nearly back to where you were before.
Healing your mind is completely different, because you arent returning to what you were before.
Trammy Nguyen
You are gutting yourself and becoming someone entirely new.
If that seems a little bit violent and harsh, it should.
Healing is not a lovely ascension into comfort and wellness to be experienced once and forevermore.
Healing yourself is the most uncomfortable, disruptive, important thing you will ever do.
And getting to that place?
It requires a lot.
Healing is no longer trying to sanitize your experience, to cleanse it until it is made perfect.
Lets be clear: you are not going to suffer forever.
This is not going to hurt for long.
We are meant to go through these periods of what some refer to as positive disintegration.
This is how we are supposed to respond.
But we cower, because it will be uncomfortable.
Healing is not just what makes us feel better the fastest.
It is building the right life, slowly, and over time.
It is greeting ourselves at the reckoning, admitting where weve faltered.
Healing is refusing to tolerate the discomfort of change because you refuse to tolerate mediocrity for one second longer.
The truth is that there is no way to escape discomfort, it finds us wherever we are.
Healing is going to be hard at first.
It is going to mean looking at yourself honestly, maybe for the first time ever.
It is not what makes you more comfortable and idle.
Lets be clear about something: becoming the best version of yourself is your natural inheritance.
It is what you are born to do.
