HEALING
What is healing
To heal is not to erase the wound nor to forget what was endured.
It is to remember love at a depth untouched by harm.
Healing is a return—not to an earlier self, but to the ground that was always holding you, even when you believed yourself abandoned.
What we call wounds are places where attention narrowed, where love seemed to withdraw. But love did not leave. It waited.
To heal is to feel again what was numbed for survival. To let warmth move where guarding once lived. To allow the body, the heart, the soul to discover they were never broken—only protecting something so very precious.
Healing is remembrance. Not a journey forward, but a soft turning back to the place once thought lost, now revealed to have never gone away.
Love did not need to be rebuilt. Only recognized. And in that recognition, the wound loosens its grip— not because it was defeated, but because it is no longer needed.
This is what it means to heal.
Nigel Lott
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