Healing comes in all shapes and sizes.
There can be healing from a cut, from a disease, from emotional, psychological and financial stress, etc.
More often than not, it’s a combination of many factors.
Have you ever felt like you were stuck in your healing?
What if it wasn’t your healing that was stuck but your identity?
If you got a cut on your finger, do you think you will heal?
If you bruised yourself or even broke your arm, would you heal?
The answer to the above is most likely yes.
So, then, why are you not healing from your <insert blank here> (neck pain, back pain, chronic illness, etc.)?
I want to explore this from an identity point of view.
For myself, I noticed a decline in my memory since giving birth to my children. Many mothers often experience brain fog or Mommy brain during pregnancy and after giving birth.
In the past, I’ve often asked, why my memory isn’t coming back to me. Why doesn’t my brain work the way it used to? My healing must be stuck somewhere was a conclusion I came to previously. Then I would set out to fix it.
Then, one day, I had an ah-ha moment. What if I’m not broken and I do not need to be fixed? Perhaps, I simply need an upgrade.
An upgrade in what? My identity.
What if it wasn’t my healing that was stuck but an identity?
Becoming a mother was one of the biggest shifts in identity for me. Before, I was mostly responsible for myself.
Note: You may be responsible TO other adults in your life such as in a marriage, with people you live with or in the business environment, you are not responsible FOR them if they are capable.
Now, I was responsible for a little human.
What if part of my brain was frozen in my previous identity before I assumed the Mother identity? Or, maybe my body is all its wisdom hide previous parts of me from myself in order to protect me.
I set out to test this. I started to become aware of when my body did not feel safe. I would ask myself, is this a real danger or a perceived one? 99% of the time, it is a perceived lack of safety and I used my CARE Process to regulate my nervous system.
Over time, I noticed that parts of my brain started to unfreeze. I was able to remember memories of growing up and my childhood that I couldn’t remember before. I started to have to write less things down.
What if your healing was stuck in a previous version of yourself?
It’s time to find out why.
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