Fully Committing to Healing
When dealing with any chronic health condition, you eventually face a crucial decision: whether to fully commit to your healing journey or just do enough to get by. True commitment means going beyond the bare minimum and dedicating yourself wholeheartedly to the process.
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Doing the Bare Minimum
For much of my life, I operated in survival mode. Looking back, I realize that I did the bare minimum for my skin and body, largely because I didn’t know any better. Although I believed I was doing everything possible to support my body’s healing, I was missing significant parts of the puzzle, which I only recognized years later.
Healing Externally AND Internally
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that to heal the outside, you must also heal the inside. This involves healing the mind, heart, and soul. Growing up, I never considered this because I wasn’t taught about the powerful mind-body connection. It wasn’t until I began to heal from within and witnessed profound changes firsthand that I truly understood. This realization came after exhausting every other option and finding no other choice but to try
The Importance of Inner Healing
Today, many people discuss the importance of therapy, meditation, and mindfulness. However, even those who talk about it often don’t fully commit to the healing process. Once you commit to this kind of healing, there is no turning back. Unearthing your traumas and past experiences is like opening Pandora’s Box – you can’t just close it again or ignore what emerges. You must confront them.
Making a Commitment
Every being has a breaking point. This is when we decide enough is enough and choose to commit to healing. The inner healing journey is more challenging than the outer, though both are interconnected. Physical tasks like taking supplements, applying lotions, avoiding allergens, and managing our illness can often feel easier.
What’s truly difficult is confronting suppressed thoughts and feelings. This process requires immense bravery and courage. It involves unpacking our deepest fears and pains, those we pushed to the back of our minds and preferred to forget.
How Committed Are You?
So, how dedicated are you to your healing? How committed are you? How badly do you want it? Are you comfortable in your comfort zone of pain and darkness, or are you willing to slowly climb out of it? Will you sift through every trauma, examine it from all angles, sit with it, and allow it to hurt? True inner healing lies in feeling the emotions we never allowed ourselves to feel or express.
A Continuous Process
Once you begin this process and pull out one “root,” you’ll find many more waiting for you. It takes time, patience, and perseverance. However, once you see your inner and outer worlds merging and your external world reflecting your inner healing, you won’t want to turn back.
You’ll want to keep doing the work, showing up for yourself every single day, no matter how hard it gets. You will cry, get angry, feel frustrated, and experience pain, but that’s part of the journey. You must sit with these emotions and ask what they’re teaching you. Decide to never go back and finally put your healing first, above all else.
Would you commit if you knew that was the key to healing your skin and preventing flare-ups? Would you take the risk? Some risks are simply worth taking.
