Reflection 1

Over the coming weeks and months, I’d like to begin sharing some reflections from my own life and the insights that have emerged from my recent exploration.

Lately, I’ve been spending time exploring something that has deeply changed the way I understand grief, healing, and even myself.

For many years, I looked at emotional pain through the lens of fixing, solving, understanding, and moving forward. There is certainly value in all of those things.

But what I’ve been discovering is something different.

I’ve been asking questions like:

– What is my nervous system carrying underneath this experience?

– What is beneath the worry, the resentment, the overthinking, the guilt, or the grief?

– What adapted inside me in order to survive?

And what I’ve found is that many of the things I once judged about myself make much more sense when viewed through the lens of understanding rather than self-criticism.

I’ve come to believe that healing is not always about fixing ourselves.

Sometimes it’s about finally understanding ourselves.

Not that I have all the answers.

But I’ve discovered that when we can gently recognize what we’ve been carrying, something inside us often begins to soften.

And sometimes that softening is where healing begins.