04/11/2025
In Your Own Time
Whatever you are healing from right now,
loss, heartbreak, disappointment,
or a wound no one else can see,
remember, your pace is your own.
Healing is not a race,
not a test of strength,
it is a quiet unfolding,
often slower than you wish,
more challenging than you could have imagined,
yet no less worthy of your patience.
Some days you will move forward
with clarity and light.
Other days, it will feel
as though you are standing still,
or even slipping backward.
Both are part of the process.
Trust that what needs to mend
will do so in its own time.
You are not behind.
You are not failing.
You are becoming whole
in the only way you can,
step by step,
breath by breath,
moment by moment.
~ 'In Your Own Time' by Spirit of a Hippie
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art by Suzy Sights
