Healing requires exposure, not covering.

Anyone who has dealt with a real physical wound knows this. If a wound is infected, you do not just slap a bandage over it and hope for the best. You clean it. You let it breathe. You tend to it with patience and care. You might even wince while doing it. But that is how it heals.

Our emotional wounds work the same way.

A lot of what passes for “healing” is actually just covering. We tell ourselves to be positive. To move on. To get over it. We layer affirmations and spiritual language on top of pain that has never been cleaned out. It looks good from the outside, but underneath, the wound is still active. Still inflamed. Still shaping our reactions, our relationships, and our bodies.

Real healing is messier.

It asks for exposure. It asks for honesty. It asks for time. It asks for attention. It asks you to sit with feelings that are uncomfortable, inconvenient, and sometimes downright ugly. Anger. Grief. Fear. Shame. Confusion. None of these are problems. Suppressing them is.

When something hurts and you rush to close it, you trap what needs air. You trap what needs movement. You trap what needs to be felt and processed. And when that happens, the body keeps the score. Emotional and psychological wounds do not disappear when ignored. They migrate. They show up as high blood pressure, migraines, joint pain, back pain, tooth pain, chronic tension, exhaustion. The system will always find a way to speak.

This is not theory for me. This is lived experience.

My healing journey has been and still is a work in process. There is no finish line, only deeper layers. What has worked best for me is not one method, but a combination. Talk therapy to name the story. Energy healing to move what words cannot reach. Physical realignment to bring the body back into integrity. Spiritual practices to reconnect me to meaning, purpose, and trust.

Along the way I have explored meditation, acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, Reiki, B.E.S.T. treatments, ayahuasca, mushrooms, sananga eye drops, hape, and more than I can probably remember right now. Each opened a different door. Each revealed something stored in the body, the nervous system, or the subconscious that could not heal while locked away.

The common thread in all of it is this. None of it worked by bypassing the wound. All of it worked by meeting it.

Healing does not mean wallowing. It does not mean living forever in the story of what happened. It means feeling what needs to be felt so it can complete its cycle and move on. Be angry, but process it. Be sad, but let the tears fall. Name the fear, then breathe through it. Feel it, understand it, and then release it.

You did not come here to sit in the pain forever. You came here to learn from it.

Those of us who chose the most difficult experiences often did so because we were ready to process more, to learn more, and to transmute more. That does not make us broken. It makes us capable. It makes us alchemists of experience.

When we do this work honestly, we are not just healing ourselves. We are clearing generational patterns. We are interrupting inherited trauma. We are giving our bodies, our children, and our communities a cleaner signal to live from.

So stop rushing to close what still needs to breathe.

Clean the wound. Expose it gently. Tend it daily. Give it the time it asks for, not the time your impatience demands. When healing is done properly, it does not leave scars that control you. It leaves wisdom. It leaves strength. It leaves space.

And from that space, you evolve.

Call to Action

If this message resonated, you are already part of the work.

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