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Healing Is Not About One Big Breakthrough. It’s About Consistency

3 min readApr 22, 2025

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Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

We chase the big moments.
The breakthrough. The clarity. The moment everything makes sense.
We want the sudden weight lifted, the dramatic shift, the clean before-and-after story.

It’s not our fault — we live in a world obsessed with transformation. With glowing “after” photos and highlight reels of people finally getting it all together. So it’s easy to feel like if your healing doesn’t look like that — loud, visible, triumphant — then maybe it’s not real.

But healing doesn’t usually work like that.

More often, it unfolds in tiny, unremarkable ways. Quietly. In the background. Like scar tissue forming underneath the surface — slow, steady, barely noticeable until one day you realize the wound doesn’t hurt as much anymore.

Real healing is boring sometimes. It’s repetitive. It asks for patience, not performance. It asks for gentleness, not grand gestures. And most of all, it asks for presence.

Not the kind of presence where everything feels calm and serene — but the kind where you’re willing to be with what’s here, even when it’s uncomfortable. Even when it’s messy. Even when…

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Patrícia Williams
Patrícia Williams

Written by Patrícia Williams

Sharing my healing & awakening journey to make you feel a little less alone on yours ✧ https://linktr.ee/patriciaswilliams