How Healing ACTUALLY Works | Esther Perel

Is there anything that you feel like you still need work healing in order to let certain things go? Or are these things always going to be with us at certain times? Different stresses or pains or wounds in the past of our individual lives?

The notion that when you heal, something utterly disappears is one component of healing. But the other part is that you need a bigger trigger to reactivate an old wound. There is a whole new range where the wound can live without being activated. You come back from Iraq from Afghanistan, or you are a refugee from Syria or from Afghanistan. You may not, at every siren, jump.

If there's a bomb.

Yes, you will jump the range and the response to the danger shifts. That's the piece around healing.