Healing Is Not Linear
Healing is not linear. This is a hard fought lesson that I am in the thick of learning right now. How appropriate that @drdemeri would post these words today, of all days, when I got called off work and so have an unexpected break and time to sit with my thoughts and reflect. It would be so easy to look at where I am right now in this present moment and declare failure. I could look in the mirror, step on the scale, and pass judgment. Failure. Not enough. It will always be this way. Don’t bother trying. I could walk down that path of negative thinking, a path so damaging but so familiar and get lost there. But I won’t. Sure, it’s so easy to type out those words but what is different this time? You see, I have a long collection of evidence that supports the former. Over 20 years worth of data that shows a girl who starts things, gets discouraged, and doesn’t finish them. What makes it different this time? Over the last 5ish years, I have learne...