Tameka AndersonBehavior Coach | Creator of the THRIVE™ Framework & CALM Method™ at Cultivate Potential Strategies

Why Healing Isn’t Instant—Here’s the Truth #trauma #depression #healing

7 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker emphasizes that healing is not a single event or a quick fix that can be earned like a certificate. Instead, healing is described as an ongoing, evolving journey. The speaker invokes James Baldwin’s insight that a journey is defined by its unpredictability—one never knows what will be discovered, how those discoveries will be used, or how they will affect the traveler—underscoring the uncertain and continuous nature of personal healing.

Healing is not a one and done, two and through, or even an event that you attend, get a certificate, and yay, now you're healed. That's not the way it goes. It's an ongoing process. That's why we call it a journey. And like James Baldwin so eloquently put it, I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.