Healing is a Journey

The journey of healing begins when you start unpacking.

For many of us, the healing process can be an uphill climb on a mountain completely covered with snow and ice, especially when facing this pandemic. Living in uncertain times makes this journey challenging to maintain consistency. Simple put, healing takes time. It’s not a short term vacation home but more like a permanent residence. Manifesting the life that you truly desire comes with unpacking the carryon, backpack, and the oversized luggage of life’s unwanted garments. Just as the airlines charge an extra fee for your baggage, the healing journey is no different.

Life charges you the fee that sometimes you don’t have the currency to pay. Like broken relationships, dysfunctional families, abusive parents, the bullying miserable boss, and the list goes on and on. The road to to self discovery, self-worth, and forgiveness are just a few pit stops along your journey. Therapy can also be another pit stop on the road to discover your value and to begin loving yourself. Healing is a process of building one's self-worth and living a deserved happy life.

Our ability to practice self-love helps us overcome life challenges and live an authentic glorious life. Healing is never linear; it’s a process that moves back and forth. Once again, healing is hard work, but it is necessary. As you recover, reorganize and trust your life. Consider yourself a valuable friend that needs to learn how to love you, and sometimes date you. Being mindful and being kind to yourself is a great milestone along this journey. As you begin to experience true healing, always remember to love yourself, daily.

Give yourself time, space, and permission to mourn your accumulated losses. Let your pain points heal one by one. Cry, grieve, mourn and remember the losses but let them exist. Then take your time to rebuild, restructure, rand regroup. Use the broken pieces, shattered dreams, and pain points to grow. Then apply the new information with love and confidence to make yourself whole, again.

Reconstruction takes time, effort, and energy which may last for months, years, or even a lifetime. But just believe, reflect, and repeat your process along with being patient with yourself. Not everyone will understand, empathize, or will understand you. As you continue upon your journey, celebrate and congratulate yourself on the journey. Be kind to yourself because you didn’t ask for this kind of pain and suffering, but it is here. So I want to encourage you to reward yourself, confirm your progress, acknowledge your strength, and admire yourself as you go on the journey.