What Does Healing Mean To You?

i use this term a lot these days, but it can come with some misconceptions.

for me, healing is not about ‘changing’ or ‘fixing’ something within myself but about welcoming and embracing all that I am with radical self acceptance and authenticity.

to learn how to live fully and experience everything (including the hard stuff)

to release fear and doubts that hold me back, to show love to the wounded parts of myself and remember who i was before them.

to me, it means rediscovering myself.

it means letting go of expectations of what i ‘should’ do and what i ‘shouldn’t do’ and embracing what i CHOOSE to do, be, say.

it means accepting myself and all of the feelings, thoughts, reactions and versions of myself that are and have been. because none parts of me are wrong or bad

it means reminding myself I am enough and I am loved, especially on days when I don’t feel it in my heart. because I wasn’t always taught or shown this.

it means coming back to myself and to my spiritual essence every time i start to feel disconnected.

it means remembering the love in my heart that has always been and will always be

it means integrating the lessons i’ve learned along the way that serve me and others

it means giving to myself and giving to others

it means showing up with authenticity

it means communicating openly

it means not resisting the hard feelings but listening to them and experiencing them, knowing that they are inseparable from happiness, joy, love

it means coming home to myself without judgment or a need to fix anything 

but simply understanding that all of me is worthy and all of me is welcomed and none of me is broken

it’s choosing that my past experiences and my conditions will not define my future, yet they are beautiful parts of me that i show up for and show love for when they come to the surface

it is letting go of limiting beliefs and welcoming in courage, confidence and love for every part of me i have resisted, blamed, belittled and shamed

it is knowing that i am whole and worthy and deserving just as i am

and it is knowing that behind every fear and every wound is a miracle waiting to change my world 

if only i can allow myself the experience 

to feel