5 Helpful Tips for Your Healing Journey
If you are new to your healing journey, here are 5 tips that I have learned over the course of my healing journey that I hope will help guide you through yours. If you have been on this journey for a while, these tips can serve as little reminders along the way.
Be Gentle with Yourself
This can look like:
Taking breaks when needed (more on this below)
Forgiving yourself for past and present “mistakes” (as many times as you need)
Talking kindly to your inner child
Continuing to do things you enjoy to keep your spirits up
Take Breaks If You Need To
A break can look like:
Spacing out coaching/therapy sessions (ex: move from 1x/week to 2x/month. Whatever feels good to you)
Spacing out your journaling
Shortening your meditation sessions
PLAYING! (do things that feel fun and bring you joy)
Sleeping more, as rest is essential
Taking a break from social media
(Please note, there is also NO SHAME in halting everything for a bit rather than slowing down. But try to set an intention that this “halt” is meant to nourish your soul with the goal of returning to your journey when you are ready.)
Keep Your Focus on Self
No two journeys look or feel the same. It is impossible to know what someone is truly going through or what it took for them to get to where they are today. We only see what they choose to share.
Comparing your journey to someone else's, or even comparing it to the stories you’ve made in your head about how it SHOULD go, can discourage you in the process.
Keep your focus inward and know that as long as you keep doing the work, you are right where you need to be.
Live in the Present
Your past can help guide you to your core wounds and what you need to “work on”, your future is a great source of inspiration for where you would love this journey to take you, but your present moment is the most important space to be.
Living in the present can look like:
Practicing mindfulness
Incorporating breathwork exercises
Doing grounding exercises whenever you feel your nervous system dysregulating
Focusing on what is going good for you in this present moment
Become Friends With Your Fear
It’s important to note, no one is on this journey without fear. They instead work BEYOND the fear and WITH the fear.
Ways to work through fear can include:
Speaking to your fear - “Thank you for being here. I know your job is to protect me. However, at this moment I am in no immediate danger. I am safe. I will take care of this. But please continue to show up for me in moments where it is absolutely necessary”
Be the observer of the fear rather than ‘feeling’ it – such as sitting with it to fully understand what it is trying to tell you.
Do the thing you feel scared of. Example: Take that hike. Sing that song even when others can hear. Dance even though someone is watching. Allow new opportunities in to your life.
Congratulations on your journey! It takes so much strength and bravery to dig this deep and allowing yourself the opportunity to transform your mind body and soul.
Please remember — you are not alone, you are so deserving of all that is coming to you, and you are doing AMAZING! KEEP GOING.