I think people take healing far too seriously
Tara Gallagher 
When healing becomes something you’re constantly thinking about, you can forget to experience yourself. On feeling the hard stuff, the good stuff, and actually feeling alive.
I think people take healing far too seriously
Especially in their heads.
Everything needs understanding.
Why did that trigger me?
Where did that come from?
Is this because of my childhood?
What does this pattern mean?
Have I processed it?
Is there something else underneath it?
And somewhere in all that searching and analysing, you can become so absorbed in trying to understand your experience that you forget to actually experience yourself.
I meet women who know so much about themselves.
They know the pattern.
They know the trauma.
They know why they people please, why they shut down, why they react the way they do.
And they're still searching.
Another answer.
Another explanation.
Another layer to understand.
This is one of the reasons I work with the body.
Because you don't have to explain everything you're feeling.
You get to feel it.
Sometimes that feeling is shit.
Anger. Grief. Fear. Hurt.
And if it's too big to feel all at once, you don't have to.
You can feel it in smaller moments.
Work with what's showing up.
Then let it go.
You don't have to sit there searching for what it means.
And here's the bit I think gets forgotten.
When you start really feeling the shit stuff, you start really feeling the good stuff too.
Joy.
Excitement.
Pleasure.
Freedom.
You get to dance.
Laugh.
Play.
Feel alive.
Because your body isn't just somewhere you go to process trauma.
It's where you experience your life.
And maybe that's why the expression “healing journey” never really sits right with me.
Your healing isn't the journey.
Your life is.
The work should help you experience more of it.
It should be less time trying to explain yourself. More time experiencing yourself.
That's a big part of what we explore inside HOME.
Categories: : Nervous System & Trauma
