they let go of you, and using that pain as fuel to transform you. Healing is about forgiveness, about embracing the scars as part of the seams which sew you back together and bring you new life.
Healing knows that it sometimes hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts even more to hold on. Healing is about taking the judgments, projections or expectations off of the situation and instead moving to a place of discovering your own capacity for life, hope and transformation. Cures are about fights, battles and comparisons—how you stack up to others, to the DSM or ICD-9, how it will be when this “problem” is cut off, away, out, removed or restored. We “fight the enemies” of depression, cancer and a myriad of other conditions, seeing them as outside of us, apart from us instead of a part of us. Healing is about gratitude for what is, about finding meaning in what underlies whatever is seeking healing, somehow knowing the thing you are seeking is probably the thing causing you to seek. Healing is about resilience, a capacity for life and all life brings without judgments or labels. Healing inevitably liberates something within us we didn’t even know we had, and brings with it the power of creative transformation. Healing may even involve inviting the “enemy” in like a wise teacher, offering it a cup of tea and really sitting with it to see what this invader might be bringing to us.
Healing allows us to tap an inner resilience and trust the process. Healing can move us from old expectations to new possibilities, to a place still wet with the dew of dawning inner hopes and dreams suddenly transformed into realistic possibilities. Healing is about recognizing that life is meant to be lived and enjoyed, and just because you