“Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing. Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story and walk your way to a different ending.” – Vienna Pharaon
Such an important reminder. Just as important is remembering that healing well is a process vs. something we all are born knowing how to do. It requires the support of people who love us, who will walk alongside us come what may. It requires time and grace to keep going when it feels scary and too hard. Many times it requires a good therapist who can provide new tools for the daunting but necessary work ahead. We find the courage to add hope and health to seeds of pain and loss. The miracle comes, sometimes unexpectedly, when we start to see signs of new life across the fields of our life.
And new life never ceases to be a miracle.
We all experience times of dormancy. Times when it feels as if we’ve been buried so deep in the dark soil for too long. That growth has been permanently stunted and any hope of things changing is lost. But when we ask for what we need, and surround ourselves with people and resources willing to invest in our growth, we begin to see the truth regarding both our value and our potential.
Seeds can’t grow unless their needs are met, and neither can we. They need warmth and a good location, proper nutrients, and both sunshine and rain. But when they get what they need, it’s not long before they insist on realizing their full potential. Of becoming all that they were intended to be.
And so can we.
hindsight 