The Key
What is the key to healing? People ask me this often. Maybe you often ask yourself as well. This journey is so uniquely yours. This path you travel has to be extraordinarily your own. It can be no one else’s. The road will always be there. You just have to choose when to take it. Healing is a journey. It is not a destination. It requires work, commitment, and trust. What you’re looking for isn’t out there, ya know? We look and we search…and then, we look some more. We uncover and we discover…trying to recover and heal in some small way. We continue to look in all the places for the very things we’ve held within us all along. When a soul is in need of healing, it will find itself at the feet of growth. It can be a painful, messy process. Stay the course. Healing is when we no longer feed the shame and the secrets that have long been hidden inside of us. Every time we face one of our fears, we become a little more free. You already hold the key to all of it…
We become vulnerable to negativity and toxicity when we become distracted from ourselves. We get lost when we search outside of ourselves for the truth of what we carry within. On the contrary, when we’ve seen and explored the deepest, darkest parts of our own soul, we become more comfortable with others in our lives exploring theirs. It creates a beautiful space for connection and allows us the freedom to be exactly who we truly are.
Knowing your authentic self is the beginning of all wisdom. Life isn’t about changing the person you’ve always been. It’s about giving him or her the grace we never did. It’s getting to know and accepting all of the different versions of who you are and who you’ve been. It’s so easy to judge-especially ourselves and one another. It’s so incredibly easy to judge. It’s much more challenging to understand and to have empathy and compassion. Through judgement, we separate ourselves from one another and create distance. Through understanding, we grow and we create opportunities for meaningful connection. Let go of your expectations. Surrender all that you think should be happening and recognize what actually is. Stop searching…the change you make within, to accept your true self, will become the reflection you will eventually see in your life and in all that surrounds you. The things you are waiting for are already inside of you.
Healing has nothing to do with becoming “better” or “happier”. In fact, it’s the crumbling away of everything we ever imagined to be true of ourselves. Real healing is the freedom in realizing that we have a choice in what we allow to have power over us in our lives. Freedom is being yourself without anyone else’s permission. It is not about indifference or becoming detached from people or things. Instead, the road to healing is found in being bold enough to be unapologetically attached to your own authentic soul and to live a life that honors the call of your spirit. When we are real is when we can heal…and then maybe those around us just might heal too. Release your limits. Heal yourself. Get to know yourself and who you truly are. Make yourself whole and free. What is the key to healing, you ask? You. It’s always been you. The world needs you. You need you. Just as you are. You hold the key to everything your soul ever searched for…
