Healing Is Not Linear, So Be Gentle With Yourself
Healing is not a recovery to what we were. It's actually a rebirthing into a completely different person.
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Actionable Insights
- Allow yourself to be emotionally vulnerable. Express and experience your feelings openly, rather than suppressing them. This openness can lead to deeper healing and understanding.
- Understand: healing is a non-linear journey. Acknowledge that healing is a journey with fluctuating experiences. Setbacks or challenging days are part of the process and do not indicate failure. Healing evolves over time in unpredictable ways.
- Prioritize stillness and silence for clarity and healing. Dedicate time to stillness and silence. These moments are crucial for clarity and profound healing, offering opportunities for deep reflection and internal processing.
- Seek and value support from loved ones. Embrace support from friends and family during your healing journey. Choose companions who understand and validate your feelings, and who can provide comfort and assistance in challenging times. Their support can significantly accelerate healing and personal growth.
Junk Journaling
In this episode, Brianna Wiest defines ‘junk journaling’ as a therapeutic technique that helps us banish bad thoughts and move on faster. Here is the explanation, summarized from the conversation.
In managing emotional turmoil, one effective strategy I’ve adopted is what I call ‘junk journaling.’ This practice involves setting aside time specifically for the purpose of unburdening my mind and heart of pent-up emotions and thoughts. The process begins with opening a journal and explicitly stating my intent at the top of the page: to release these thoughts and feelings without giving them further energy or making them more real. Essentially, the journal serves as a container for whatever is stirring inside me, allowing a free flow of expression without judgment or the need for coherence.
To enhance this practice, I incorporate a time limit, typically allotting a specific period, like three hours, to fully immerse in this emotional outpouring. During this time, I allow myself to experience the full spectrum of my emotions, often leading to a cathartic release through tears. Remarkably, I often find that well before the time is up, I reach a state of clarity and peace.
This method has proved highly beneficial, as it seems to clear an internal frequency or energy that was subtly influencing various aspects of my life. By simply allowing these emotions and thoughts to surface and be acknowledged in the junk journal, I often experience a noticeable improvement in my overall wellbeing, demonstrating the power and necessity of acknowledging and releasing internal turmoil.
Brianna Wiest
Episode Quotes
The people that you look up to, that you think have it together, they have moments where they break a little bit and that’s okay.
Jacqueline Whitney
We need to embrace and express the deepest pits of our emotions because what gets repressed expresses itself in far more insidious ways than the emotion itself could ever impact us.
Brianna Wiest
When you heal yourself and when you share in that healing, you’re also healing other people.
Bianca Sparacino
Why do we find it so much easier to believe in someone else’s healing than in our own?
Jacqueline Whitney
The bravest thing you can do is to choose to change your life, but it’s really hard to choose that change.
Bianca Sparacino
We are not returning to what we were before. That person is gone. We are consciously creating the person that we want and need to be moving forward.
Brianna Wiest
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