How Healing Happens

The more we try to get rid of symptoms, the slower and more difficult the healing process. 

Healing is a “both and” practice.  

We care for our physical body in the best ways we can.  The physical body houses the soul, which is here to master lessons, not for punishment, but for evolution and growth. 

Living well includes having a sense of purpose, being authentic and truthful, first with ourselves and then with others, keeping personal boundaries, having meaningful relationships and fulfilling work, maintaining a healthy diet, good sleep habits, and reducing physical, emotional and relational toxins.

Simultaneously, we open to listening to the messengers, our symptoms, which are here to give us messages about our Selves.  

How healing unfolds is not fully in our control.  That is, we can live well yet still get sick - become out of balance. 

Recognizing that healing is not a process we can control is helpful in how it occurs - with a lesser or greater degree of struggle.

Most importantly, healing comes in part from Mystery - that which is unknowable, and beyond ourselves.

Caring for our health is important, though not more so than being open to the whispers (insight) from our symptoms and allowing, vs. forcing,  healing to occur.