The Journey

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For those of you on a healing journey of any kind this is for you. Whether you choose it or it chooses you. No one tells you that when you start out on this path how hard its going to be. No one tells you about challenges you never knew existed. No one prepares you for how lonely you would feel and how many tears you would cry along the way. No one tells you about the grieving that happens. No one even hints at how dark it can get along this path of healing. The hardest part is no one can tell you how long it will take or guarantee that you will even fully heal. 

The tricky part about healing, is in most cases and arguably in all cases, you need to feel to heal. In physical healing your body uses pain stimuli to signal that there is need for repair, there is need for resources and there is need for rest. Feeling pain is necessary to know when your hurt and need to heal. 

The same is true for mental, emotional and spiritual healing. This is the part that doesn't get talked about enough. As humans most times we are taught to repress emotions or that only certain ones are accepted and should be felt. What you will find along your healing journey is that those emotions and traumas that aren't released will be held in the body and can cause physiological issues. 

As you go along your healing journey you will relive and re-feel all that pain as if it had just happened. I am here to tell you it gets better. On the other side of every breakdown is growth. On the other side of every moment of suffering is a moment of peace. It is a very long road and every persons is different. Healing is not linear. You may be fine one day and the next something hits you like a ton of bricks. Somedays its 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. 

In this photo the path is winding, the path is uneven and it is long. However there is a reason why there is a bench to sit down on. There is a reason why there is a fence to lean up against.

What I want to instill in you if you are on this journey, like I am, is that you are not alone and it is ok to rest. It is ok to take breaks. Its ok to not be ok and lean on other people. Its ok not to be 100%. Rest but don't quite. The world needs your light and its a better place with you in it.  

A little sprinkle of hope that is not told by looking at this photo is how close you can be too the end after you rest. The secret of this photo is that there is a big beautiful beach full of bright sun and warm sand just over the crest of the hill. Sometimes you are closer than you think even when it feels so far away.

Keep going you got this.

As always even if you don't end up purchasing anything I hope this helps you in some way.