The Healing Process We Know: The One We Don't

As we look back at experiences within our lives, majority of us experienced a scrape or a cut in our childhood. Living life comes with injuries. And every kind of injury comes with its own healing process… if we really think about it.

Physical healing doesn't really need an explanation. We've all lived or witnessed it so we know what that looks like. It's what happens on the inside where things can become complicated — because no one knows unless you share it. Or until it gets so overwhelming it starts showing up and impacting your life.

That's the thing about emotional and psychological injuries. They are so deeply, so profoundly personal that no two people move through them the same way. As a psychotherapist I can't hand someone a map of healing and tell them to follow it. It doesn't work like that. What happened to you, how it landed, what it's asking of you to recover that's entirely personal. Living life comes with injuries but it also opens space for healing.

If you're struggling with your own healing process, know you are not alone, and there is support for you.