Healing is a Life Long Journey

Small steps.
Take one more step today.

This is what healing looks like. It’s not about making huge progress in a short amount of time, it’s about showing up for yourself and taking another step in the right direction today.

Healing also means taking two steps backward some days, and not beating yourself up for it. I’d even argue that this part is more important than the steps forward. Because God knows we’ve spent enough years beating ourselves up for something that was never our fault.

So, What Is Healing?

To me, healing is a lifelong journey.

It’s more than just recovering from trauma, it’s about personal growth, learning, and becoming who we were meant to be all along. There’s no finish line. When we start to see healing this way, the pressure eases. The impossible expectations fade.

We stop chasing perfection and start practicing compassion.
We stop calling ourselves names and start giving ourselves grace.

Here’s a hint: you’re never going to heal by hating yourself.
You haven’t so far, and it’s not going to work moving forward.

A Truth I’ve Come to Believe

I don’t know what you believe, but I believe God created each of us. I can’t imagine anyone else designing nearly eight billion people, all unique, all different. That’s incredible to me.

And I believe each one of us has a purpose.
Trauma just sidetracked us.

Our nervous systems did exactly what they were designed to do, protect us. Now our work is to teach them that it’s safe again. That’s what healing really is: teaching your nervous system that it can feel safe again.

The Old Pattern

I remember the days when I would mess up, and the negative voices would flood in:

Over and over again until I hit my lowest point.

But here’s the truth, we cannot heal like this.
We cannot treat ourselves the way our abusers treated us and expect to get better.

Let me say that again: we cannot treat ourselves like our abusers treated us and expect to heal.

You didn’t deserve that treatment back then, and you don’t deserve it now.

The Journey Forward

Healing is a lifelong process, full of ups and downs, one step forward, two steps back, and then three steps forward again.

It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.
Every small step matters. Every moment of grace counts.
And every time you choose compassion over criticism, that’s healing in action.

Stay positive and take action!

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