A few months ago, I began my healing journey.

If you’re thinking this article isn’t for you because healing is only for those who have suffered trauma of some sort, you need to keep reading.

Healing is what we do to come back home to our true selves—the essence of who we are. I call it the inner child. You may want it your core or authentic self or your soul.

As such, healing is for all of us because life turns us away from ourselves.

Think of a little baby when it enters the world. So pure that it feels like a dirty finger would leave a mark. So fragile that a loud sound rattles its calm.

Then, the darts begin. And they keep on coming. No one is spared the dents and scratches of life.

That little baby, which you and I once were, twists a little this way and bends a little that way. It gets reshaped into what the world wants, which is very different from what it wants because the world isn’t made for its flourishing.

Most of us arrive at the gates of mid-adulthood feeling like strangers to ourselves.

We wonder who we........

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