12/17/2025
Something I’ve been sitting with this month is how often healing shows up quietly, even when a lot of work has already been done. People share a moment they handled differently, a boundary they held, a reaction that softened and then move right past it like it doesn’t really count.
But it does.
Those shifts don’t come out of nowhere. They’re built through paying attention, choosing differently, practising and staying with yourself through things that weren’t easy. The healing happened. It just didn’t arrive as a big “aha.”
And that doesn’t make it smaller. If anything, it makes it real.
If you want to read more of my thoughts on this, I shared a longer reflection on my blog and Substack.