25/08/2026
I don’t believe healing is a place we finally arrive at, where we can look back and say, there, I’ve dealt with all of that. I’m healed now.
The longer I’ve been immersed in this work, both within my own life and in holding space for others, the more I’ve come to understand healing as something far less linear. We circle back to the same wounds, fears and patterns we thought we had already met, understood or released, but returning doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve gone backwards.
We are not always the same person when we meet those places again. We may have more awareness, more capacity to stay with what is uncomfortable, more compassion for ourselves and, perhaps most importantly, more choice in how we respond.
Healing, to me, feels much more like a spiral than a straight line. We move through the landscapes of our lives and sometimes return to familiar places, but each time we may be seeing them from a different vantage point.
Perhaps healing isn’t about becoming someone who is no longer wounded, but learning how to be in relationship with our wounds without allowing them to unconsciously steer our lives.
This is one of the reasons I continue to be so moved by sound. Not because sound magically “fixes” us or removes everything difficult we carry, but because it can create space for the thinking mind to soften and for us to listen more deeply to our bodies, to what is asking to be felt, and to what might be ready to move.
Maybe there is far more healing in simply learning how to be with ourselves, again and again, with greater presence, awareness and compassion.
Seriya ###
