The question is not what is wrong with you.
It's “What happened to you?”
Pain doesn't leave until it has been truly heard.
When we turn toward it instead of away, things can begin to shift.
Pain has a way of making us feel like we are the only ones in it. But the truth is, we are not. Most people have just never been taught what to actually do with their pain.
Pain is not the enemy. It is a messenger. Carrying information about something painful inside us that needs our presence and care. All too often, when we think pain is bad, we shoot the messenger.
Most people spend their lives trying to escape their pain. To deny, suppress, distract, bypass, or bulldoze through it. So focused on making it stop, that we never pause to ask what it is trying to tell us. And so it stays. It returns. It finds new ways to show up.


























