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Hello, friends of Reflections . As usual, I’m sharing a reflective piece on the processes we often go through when we decide to heal.
Because true healing certainly requires a great deal of courage, but also our willingness to be vulnerable, as it involves making space for what hurts us and for the things we keep silent about and leave behind, believing that time alone heals wounds – but no, it isn’t always like that; sometimes time makes them worse.
It isn’t time that heals wounds; it’s what we do over time that heals them
When I started therapy, one of the hardest things for me was opening up my heart and seeing myself as so vulnerable – and that was a real blow to my ego, because I’d always thought I was very strong, believing I’d ‘overcome’ many difficult situations without letting myself break down
But by speaking honestly with my psychologist, I realised that what I’d actually done was hide my emotions so as not to show them, and in doing so I’d built up a suit of armour that was already rusting.
In a process of self-reflection, recognising and accepting the truth is the hardest part, because it means realising you’ve always been living a lie
That’s why healing isn’t just about performing rituals and meditating.
It means facing up to your reality head-on and not running away, but rather integrating what has caused pain for so long in order to transform it and turn it into light (awareness).
Photo of My propiety
Accepting my sexual orientation and loving who I am involved nights filled with fear and anxiety, when I couldn’t see a better future for myself; yet it was that darkness I was in that led me to seek the light
And I began a conscious process of forgiving myself, and it was then that I started to realise that healing is neither comfortable nor, by any means, as easy as social media would have you believe these days.
It’s about realising, feeling and acknowledging your emotions in order to put into words and make sense of what has remained hidden.
But to write all this down for you, I had to open my heart and let myself be helped.
I don’t mean to say that I’m now completely well and free, but I have changed and I’ve stopped feeling sorry for myself.
Because healing isn’t a destination we reach where there will be no more storms. It’s an ongoing journey where there are no shortcuts, and where it takes a great deal of self-love, humility and courage to move forward.
With nothing more to add, I hope you’ve enjoyed my post
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