emotional healing

Outgrowing Our Problems: Why Healing Isn't About Erasing the Past

“We don’t solve our problems. We outgrow them.” — Carl Jung

There’s no magic spell to cancel our issues. We can’t erase our imperfect childhood, our years in the bad relationship, or our mistakes that sent us on the “wrong” path (pst… it’s all Path). Our trauma, abusive parents, toxic ex’s, tragic losses... all belong to us and will always live within us in some capacity. These are important chapters in our story. They season us, deepen us, develop our character and we take them with us wherever we grow.

Why Talk Therapy Alone Isn’t Enough: The Missing Piece of Emotional Healing

Talking about it helps! Talking about the thing gets us closer to feeling resolved about it. But I’ll be the first to admit that talking about it won’t always help us move through it entirely. At some point we need to put down the discussion of it and let the feelings catch up and be felt.