What a healing journey is like
We buy things we don’t need
We drive cars we can’t afford
We go to places social media says are cool
We invest in neighborhoods we don’t resonate with
We do drugs to feel better for the moment
We drink alcohol to forget
We consume destructive music and entertainment
We date people we don’t love
We stay friends with people who flake on us
We eat food with no nutritional value
We eat “healthy” food unfit for our designs
We overwork to avoid facing ourselves
We stay in careers we think we should be in
We escape to exotic destinations
We stay busy to feel important
We spend our time and energy on the wrong people
We blame our problems on other people
We hold on to our outdated beliefs really hard
Then we hit rock bottom
We realize we are not well
We have no idea who we are
None of these external factors makes us happy
We can’t keep escaping
We can’t keep going like this anymore
This is when we break
Everything we’ve held on to no longer works
We experience a massive amount of loss
In relationships, health, jobs, and things we own
The loss ends up working in our favor
It’s spring cleaning time
Everything that holds us back, is out
To create more space for new things to enter
We encounter people who challenge and test us
They are here to urge our growth
We encounter people who instantly feel like family
They are here to remind us we are not alone in our journeys
And that we deserve to love and be loved
We finally start facing ourselves
It’s uncomfortable
But we can’t go back
We have no other choice
So we keep going inward
The darkness of the tunnel feels like forever
Then we start seeing the light
We start remembering who we are
Who we want to be
Who we don’t want to be moving forward
What we like
What we don’t like
We realize all our problems stem from our childhoods
We revisit our painful pasts
We work through them with grace and courage
This time, we got this
Our awareness is on another level
We’ve been collecting the dots this whole time
We finally get to connect them
It’s time to feel whole
We’ve reached the state of inner peace
We accept where we are and who we are
We accept the painful pasts
We accept the wrongdoings of other people
We see ourselves in others
We surrender and love
Our journeys continue.