Healing

These are not my words but words I found to be inspirational.
"Healing is a total, orgasmic, synergistic response that must emerge from within the individual if recovery and growth are to be accomplished. Healing is creative, bringing forth patterns and connections that did not exist before." - Emmet Miller in Healers on Healing

It is important to understand that we all change and move at our own pace and in our own time. We have to be very patient with ourselves. As we make the journey of healing we can be likened to a chicken trying to emerge from its shell. For that young chick the shell around it must feel like cast iron, like a suit of armour that is has to prise its way out of. It is natural fro us to want to help by peeling away the shell and thus allowing the chick to be free. But if we do, the chick will die. It needs the strength it gains from breaking free of the shell in order to live, and it needs to do it by itself. We are like that chick. Our anger, guilt, fear, insecurity, shame and all our hidden monsters make up our shells, holding us back from experiencing true freedom. Breaking free is not easy, and no one else can do it for us. But if we have the courage to do it, then the stregth and understanding we gain is the true healing. - Debbie Shapiro The bodymind workbook