hey, salty caper.

bandaids don’t always make it better, and healing generally involves way more time than we’ve been socialized to believe

whether we’re talking injured body parts or emotional wounds, surface healing doesn’t mean your insides are well yet, and often the most healing work doesn’t show visible results for more time than we’d like

real healing takes time, and trying to shortcut it will yield cut short results

we’re just so damn busy though, so eager to slap a well sticker on our foreheads so we can get back to it (whatever IT happens to be)

but of course when we don’t get weeds out by the roots, those pesky little suckers grow right back, don’t they?

trickier still, sometimes we don’t know what the weeds actually look like, which makes it awfully tough to root them out

i don’t remember the context from when i scrawled this phrase in my notebook, “heal yourself whole”

but i decided to add "while carrying on," because that's the challenge, isn't it?

i’ve been having lots of conversations lately that, even when they don’t seem on the surface to be about healing, are actually very much about healing

our sadness, our anger, our traumas, our resentments…

they all require some element of healing — they all spring, as least in part, from a wound of some sort

and none of them can be healed in a vacuum

so i encourage you to consider if you feel able — when faced with a struggle, a frustration, a broken boundary or an obstacle…

what healing might need to happen or be in process of happening —

and how might you take care with yourself knowing that?

and i knowwwww…

you don’t have time for that

you can’t afford to go easy with yourself

you have shit to do. people need you strong. your business needs you strong, too

halfhealed is better than weepy + wounded right now

i’m not going to shame you or gaslight you. i’m not going to tell you that you just need to change your attitude or focus on how this is happening FOR you, not TO you

if that was accessible to you right now, you’d already be doing it. and it’s terribly insulting to insinuate that your big feelings are baseless + your concerns are merely mindset problems

you know we don’t do toxic positivity here, bloom

but we also don’t let ourselves heal not at all just because we don’t feel like we can heal all the way

so it becomes about how we can allow ourselves to heal in imperfect recurring pockets in order to ultimately heal well

how we can heal WHILE living life, tending to obligations, fulfilling responsibilities

without martyring ourselves or driving ourselves into the ground

because healing is, as they say, a journey + not a destination

it’s a lifestyle that you either commit to or get consumed by

and when you stop looking at it as something to get through for the next 5-10 days or 6-8 weeks + start accepting that it’s cyclical, infinite, everpresent —

when you stop thinking that that means you’re doing it wrong or that the world is out to get you…

that’s when you can let yourself learn how to nurture yourself in the midst of your challenges + everyday life —

and to do it before you’re so wrecked you need a week or a year to recover

you can let yourself heal in an hour nap here, a rescheduled appointment there, an afternoon of sunshine today + a call with your bestie, therapist or coach tomorrow

you can honor the healing that needs to happen every single day in order to make it through that day

which isn’t to say that you won’t need bigger healing, too. you get to heal big, bloom

but you ALSO get to heal a little bit every day, too

healing is a tender endeavor that we’re all in some sort of evolving process around, always

it’s time we start normalizing kindness around it, toward ourselves in our own + toward others in theirs

so that we can all show up to life in the midst of our healing, doing the best we can, together

i’m so grateful for the convos around healing that i’ve been having lately

i’ve kept this a bit vague because everyone’s got a different entrypoint, a precariously unique collection of wounds to heal

but in case it’s helpful, here are a couple concrete ways i’m in process with healing myself right now:

• although i’ve healed from the bells palsy that left one side of my face temporarily paralyzed last year, my face has become a caution alarm that starts to tingle when i’m exceptionally stressed + don’t take intentional care with my sleep, nutrition + mental health. it’s scary to feel like it might be happening again, but it also feels like a gift that lets me know when i can’t keep pushing my limits
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• business is slow right now, and it’s hard not to internalize it or take it personally. the resulting financial struggle stirs up past money trauma while also affecting my current experience. i’ve done a lifetime of personal growth work around this, and have decided it’s time to seek therapy (may is mental health awareness month, and a great time to consider where you might be able to use some support, too!)​
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• i ended things with someone i'd been seeing a while back, but it still hurts when he ignores a message i send in a weak moment, and that leaves me feeling emotionally tender + annoyed with myself for reaching out. but when i look back over time, i see how much i’ve changed those tendencies to reach back out, and how quickly i now move on from feeling bad about it

being gentle with yourself doesn’t mean avoiding responsibilities

it means doing what you know you need to do to be well enough to meet them well, while remaining emotionally well, too

and believing that you’re worth your own emotional wellness

because oh, sweet bloom, you are

xxoo, cc

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got Qs? hit reply + ask em, bloom 🌸

xxoo, cc

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