The Healing Journey Isn’t Linear

We’re often taught subtly or loudly, that healing should look like a straight, upward climb. That once you begin, things will simply get lighter, clearer, and easier day by day. But real healing, true, deep healing doesn’t move in straight lines.

It spirals.
It circles back.
It unearths things you thought were already “dealt with.”
It pulls you deeper before it lifts you higher.

There are days when you will feel clear, radiant, expansive.
And there are days when the old ache will whisper again.
When grief returns in unexpected waves.
When fear knots in your belly.
When exhaustion drapes itself over your shoulders.

This does not mean you are failing.
This does not erase the progress you have made.

Healing asks us to move beyond the mind’s love of measuring.
It asks us to soften into or outside of cycles, into the knowing that every return, every pause, every unraveling is part of the path forward.

Because healing isn’t about becoming perfect.
It’s about becoming whole.
And wholeness holds all of you, the strong and the tender, the joyful and the aching, the light and the shadow.

Wherever you are today, in expansion, in contraction, in stillness, you are still moving.
You are still becoming.
You are still healing.

Trust the spiral.
Trust your becoming.
You are exactly where you need to be.