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MHM - Healing isn't always Peaceful · Life Lived Better

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  Hey there. Welcome to another mental health
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  moment from the Life Live Better podcast.
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  This is a place where we take just a couple of minutes to care
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  for our minds. I'm Paula.
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  And today, we're talking about something that might be a
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  surprise and it might be kind of uncomfortable to acknowledge.
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  And that is that healing is not always peaceful.
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  Somewhere along the way, most of us were given this idea that
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  healing should be calm and quiet and maybe even a little
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  inspiring. Like once we start doing the
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  right things for our mental health, every single day, we
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  should feel a little lighter. But unfortunately, that's not
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  always how it works. In fact, sometimes healing feels
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  uncomfortable, and it can get messy.
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  It can even feel worse before it feels better, because healing
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  asks us to look at things that we have spent a very long time
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  avoiding. Those old wounds, that
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  unresolved pain, those patterns that used to protect us but
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  aren't serving us anymore. And once we start to face those
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  things, it can start bringing up emotions we did not expect.
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  Emotions like anger and sadness and grief and even confusion.
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  And that doesn't mean that we're doing it wrong.
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  It probably means we're doing it right, actually.
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  Healing isn't about bypassing the pain, unfortunately.
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  It's about moving through it. There's a lot of loss that comes
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  with healing. Letting go of old coping
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  strategies or old identities and even in unhealthy relationships
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  that don't fit anymore. And loss, even when it's
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  healthy, can feel heavy. So if you find yourself in a
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  season where you're doing all the work, you're going to
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  counseling, you're setting boundaries, you're becoming more
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  aware, you're doing all the things we talk about here, but
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  you don't feel peaceful yet, I want you to hear this.
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  Peace is not always the starting point of healing.
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  Sometimes, most of the time, it's a result of staying in the
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  process. So give yourself permission to
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  be in the middle of it, to not have it all figured out, to feel
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  both growth and discomfort at the same time.
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  Because healing isn't always quiet, but it is always
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  meaningful. And over time, as you continue
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  to show up for yourself, that sense of peace that you're
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  looking for will find you the Life Live Better podcast.
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  Thank you for joining us for this mental health moment.
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  And until next time, take care of your mind because it's the
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  only one you've got. And don't forget that knowledge
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  leads to a life lived better.