Prompt: Healing
The Reason
What happens when we drop The Why?
For years the running joke between my therapist and I was, “But wait! There’s more!” as he sat in his chair, sipping tea, and occasionally scratching a note or two. I had no clue I had walked through so many fires until the day I sat in his wisdom and on his Goddess-awful-orange couch unraveling my past.
Truthfully, I had just stopped counting.
But the biggest takeaway I got for my co-pays was this — I realized I had saved myself even more suffering by never dwelling on “The Why”. As bad as things had been — I never sought to make sense out of it in The Moment.
I just let My Life be My Life.
My therapist helped me realize all the pain I had endured in my journey had brought me to exactly where I needed to be.
Physically. Intellectually. Emotionally. Spiritually.
Healing isn’t a one and done sort of affair. Even once you have gained insights and made peace with your shadows — Life moves relentlessly forward. The Universe will insist we continue to grow, to stretch, to learn, to love — under all conditions in the condition of our Humanity.
And that is when it truly begins to sink in. All. The. Things. don’t magically vanish because we are semi-enlightened. We will…
