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The Dark Side of Healing No One Talks About
Not your typical woo-woo Instagram BS
🧘🏻♀️ Wellness is poppin’ these days. Everyone and their moms are in therapy. Millennials are deep in their healing journey; actively working on their traumas, breaking generational curses, and embracing holistic living.
I’m good with all that. My problem is what we aren’t talking about when it comes to healing. While the transformation is worth the effort, healing is painful.
🪤 Over the last ten years, I ran into gotcha moments that made my healing journey particularly challenging. This issue will lean a bit more on the story side. I’ll start with the hard stuff to raise your self-awareness and end on an optimistic note.
Losing your village
In the U.S., we highly value individualism, counter to the cultures of our parents and grandparents.
Whether your parents were immigrants like mine or from a small town like my husband, they were raised in communities that upheld certain traditions and customs. They based their decisions on the benefit of the collective so that the village could survive.
😞 Even if it meant sacrificing an individual’s happiness.
