There’s a misconception some people have before they truly begin the work of personal growth – they may think that healing is supposed to feel light, easy, or even blissful. The truth? Healing can be uncomfortable, messy, and downright hard. But it’s also one of the most worthwhile journeys you’ll ever take.
When I first began my year-long intuitive training program in 2006, I was already experiencing some levels of illness. Honestly, I’d been sick most of my life. But once I started the deeper work, peeling away layers, I really began to get to the root of it.
And as the saying goes, what goes in must come out.
My body literally began detoxing layers of emotions, thoughts, and memories through my lymph nodes. I was sick. My lymph nodes swelled to unbelievable sizes. Doctors even biopsied them to check for cancer. Thankfully, nothing like that was found. What I came to realize was that this was me healing from the inside out, energetically, emotionally, and cellularly.
It was quite a journey. A little scary, yes. But also incredibly freeing.
My whole relationship to health changed after that.
I used to panic at the first sign of a cold, worrying it was a sign of something bigger. Now, I see health and sickness differently: as my body’s way of releasing what doesn’t serve me. Whether it’s an emotion, a virus, or a bacteria, it’s simply part of the clearing process.
And healing doesn’t just happen in the body. It can bring up old emotions, limiting beliefs, or outdated patterns we’ve carried for years. Sometimes it can feel like the world is crumbling within us, and around us, right before our eyes. It takes awareness to recognize what is happening and to choose to see it not as the end, but as the release of what no longer serves us, so something better can take root.
Releasing is rarely comfortable. But it clears space for something new, like vitality, freedom, clarity, and peace.
So if you’re on your own healing journey, and it feels hard, please know this: You’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it right. Healing asks us to walk through the discomfort, but on the other side, you reclaim more of yourself than you ever thought possible.
Healing is hard. But oh, is it worth it.
I see you, and am cheering you on. ♥️
