22/08/2026
I think we’ve made healing so complicated that sometimes we forget how to simply live.
We’re constantly being told there is something else we should be doing. Meditating more. Journaling more. Regulating our nervous system. Going to yoga. Doing breathwork. Attending the retreat. Taking the course. Working on ourselves.
And suddenly healing becomes another job.
Another thing we’re failing at when we’re already exhausted.
But what if the thing that brings you back to yourself doesn’t look like healing at all?
Maybe it’s walking through the mountains until your mind becomes quiet. Maybe it’s playing an instrument you haven’t touched in years, putting your hands into the soil, painting, climbing, writing, dancing in your kitchen or cooking dinner while listening to a song you love.
Maybe it’s remembering what made you feel alive before you ever learned what a “healing practice” was supposed to look like.
There is nothing wrong with yoga, meditation, therapy, retreats or any of these beautiful practices. But I think the danger begins when we stop listening to ourselves and start believing there is one correct way to heal.
Because sometimes rushing from work, stressed and exhausted, just to make it to a yoga class so you can “relax” might not be what your body is asking for.
Maybe that evening, healing is walking home slowly.
Maybe spirituality is making dinner without rushing. Washing your hair and actually feeling the warm water. Listening to your child tell you a story. Standing outside for five minutes and noticing the sky.
Maybe the sacred isn’t somewhere we need to travel to.
Maybe it’s here, hidden inside the ordinary moments we keep rushing through while searching for something more profound.
And maybe healing isn’t about endlessly fixing ourselves.
Maybe it’s about learning how to inhabit our lives again.
I wrote much more deeply about this in my latest Substack article on Healing From Within. If this resonates with you, you can read it through the link in my bio and join me there at Alicia Glavanova┃Healing from Within.
Maybe the way back to yourself has been much closer than you thought.