Healing takes time. It’s not about getting back what you had and more in less than the time that’s expected. It’s not about being better than before things got hard and fell apart.
There’s no pressure or time frame for healing. It is completely up to the circumstances and the individual.
Understanding and accepting that healing comes with the bad days aswell as all the good milestones.
Life can’t be straightforward. Life isn’t linear. It comes with bumps and bends and diversions. Sometimes things have to change unexpectedly, but acknowledging change and challenges is part of the process.
Healing will not make you into the person you were before. You will learn and become a different person with skills you didn’t have previously. You will be a version of yourself who hasn’t been present in the past.
Healing takes patience. There’s no overnight fix. No matter what, take each day as a second chance to try again. It won’t remove your progress. It won’t erase all the positive milestones that now seem pointless. You are still Healing, as you were yesterday, or a week ago or a month.
Nothing can take away the past. It’s yours. You lived it.
But you’ve got a choice…
You can live in the past, with the same behaviours and spiralling mindset, or you can heal. You can give yourself the care and attention you deserve and need in this moment, and allow yourself to just be.
No rules. No expectations.
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