Healing is an environmental factor-Not just physically but psychologically! You can keep being in a place that hurts and expects to heal;keep doing the same thing or seeing the same person and expects to heal. No! It's not a Mr. Macho kind of thing.
You heal when - AND ONLY WHEN-you find yourself a safe spot to heal even if it means distancing yourself from such actual cause of your hurt-You can't keep peeling off an old wound to fresh and expecting healing to take place. It's as simple as that.
For me, healing is all about replacement-replacing your old thoughts with new ones.
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