The most important thing about healing is the fact that, any symptoms that manifest are attempts to bring us back into wholeness.

If we’re doing life in a way that’s not meant for us, if our soul is suffering in some way, when something is amiss, symptoms are working as signposts, pointing here and there in order to bring us back to ourselves.

Yesterday I saw a picture of a gecko shedding his skin and immediately I thought to myself “that’s how I feel!”. The old skin resembled a costume, and if you think about it, that’s what it feels like for us humans when we’re not being ourselves. I’m shedding this old skin, this old person that I was and even though there’s this new skin coming out, my outside is still covered by the armour of the old skin and it’s such a slow process to leave it behind. It’s not as though I can just rip it off, no. That’s s not how it’s done. Once the new skin is ready, strong and thick enough to protect me, the old will naturally fall off. And it’s such an awkward and uncomfortable place to be in this in between space where , you are not who you used to be but you’re not someone new either. It is truly a metamorphosis.

Healing is the road back to wholeness.

Healing is the journey back to the Self.

Healing is reconnecting with your soul’s path and remembering your purpose.

I don’t know who I’m becoming and it is the truth that it’s been painful and ugly. Stinky and uncomfortable and often dehumanising and heartbreaking. But in a strange way I have so much gratitude and respect in my heart for all the hardships and the pain.

May it all be an offering to the fire of my soul.