Healing is complicated. Healing is confusing. Healing is overwhelming.
Healing is a non linear journey. Healing from something could take hours, sometimes months or even years. It has no deadline or time limit.
Healing is the gradual development of strength.
Singing along to a Beyonce song at the top of your lungs one moment but breaking down over the break up the next moment is okay.
Laughing at a joke a day after you've lost a loved one but aching from longing for their presence for a year after that is okay too.
So is feeling insecure and under confident about your appearance one day but smiling and being at ease with your reflection in the mirror the next.
We're all healing.
Healing from things sometimes even we don't realise we're healing from and things we can’t express or understand completely.
Our goal is to find the beauty in the process, rather than be miserable and wait till the (generally perennial) process comes to an ideal end.
-Vani Malhotra
