Healing is not linear

There's a version of healing that lives in our heads, the one we see in movies, in Instagram captions, in the success stories people tell at the end of their journey. It goes like this: something hard happens, you decide to get help, you do the work, and then slowly but surely... you get better. Steadily. Progressively. In one direction.And then there's what healing actually looks like for most people.A good week followed by a terrible day. A breakthrough in therapy followed by two sessions where you feel like you've gone backwards. A month where you felt like yourself again and then a trigger you didn't see coming that knocked the wind out of you.If that's you, I want you to stay with me today. Because this episode is for you.