I am growing in curves, not in straight lines. My journey bends like water and still arrives on time.We are not okay everyday....and that i
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I am growing in curves, not in straight lines.
My journey bends like water and still arrives on time.
We are not okay everyday….and that is okay.
Have you ever had a spot like a pimple or a mark on your face and the more you tried to make it go away, the digger it dug in? Yep.
I get those dark spots on my face and sometimes my carefully crafted DIY skin care recipes work by the next morning ….and sometimes the scar keeps looking at me in the mirror as if to say: “Nope. I think I’m just going to hang around here for awhile.”
Healing emotional spots and scars is like that.
Some seasons of healing are not about breakthroughs, revelations, or the next step in your “personal development.” Some seasons are about being still with what hurts—not rushing it, not transforming it, not turning pain into a productivity exercise.
There is a sacred truth that healers and helpers have always known:
All wounds do not respond to being hurried.
Some require time, breath, silence, presence, and patience.
Traditional, earth-based, ancestral healers understood something Western culture often forgets:
Healing is not a race.
A wound doesn’t close faster because you obsess over it.
A heart doesn’t soften because you force it.
A soul doesn’t hurry because someone else is uncomfortable with your pace.
Sometimes the most powerful healing is not the dramatic transformation—
but the quiet decision to stop trying so hard.
Your Pain Isn’t a Problem to Solve
Modern Western wellness culture has convinced people that every shadow must be illuminated, every emotion processed, every trauma dissected.
But not all healing requires:
constant explanation
relentless introspection
fixing yourself like a broken appliance
You are not a malfunction.
There is nothing “wrong” with pauses, plateaus, or rest. In many traditions:
Rest is medicine
Stillness is integration
Waiting is wisdom
Your spirit knows how to mend without a deadline.
I am growing in curves, not in straight lines.
My journey bends like water and still arrives on time.