WHAT IS HEALING?

Healing is a process of coming into relationship with who we are, a process of receiving ourselves entirely. 

This process allows us to stop slamming the door on ourselves.  We invite ourselves in just as we are – angry, dirty, grouchy, afraid, joyously happy.  We treat ourselves with the kindness we had previously reserved for babies, or grandmothers, or puppies.  We learn what to do with aspects of ourselves that have frightened us or made us dislike ourselves: our anger, our fear, our giving up, running away, being mean, talking too much.  We learn to receive all of this with gentleness rather than disgust.  And we use this same kindness to receive our qualities of understanding, patience, strength, humor, intelligence. 

Have you ever heard yourself say, “My grandmother liked me, even when I was bad”?  We must become our own grandmother, learning to hold ourselves the way that she held us.

We can learn to receive ourselves with a little work. (In truth a lot of work)  

In the healing process our physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual bodies come into a healthy, dynamic relationship with each other and with our environment.   We can be with our struggles from a different perspective: climbing the ladder to see over the fence.  We can allow ourselves to be more fully human, unafraid to experience all human emotions and conditions.