Counselors, mentors are facilitators. They guide you on your journey. Rather than fixing or curing someone, a healer holds space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself.
Essentially, true healing comes from within. A healer cannot directly heal another person. Their role is to create an environment and provide support that allows the other person to access their own inner resources and capacity for self-healing.
The healer awakens your inner healer by holding a safe space, listening deeply, asking thoughtful questions, and providing guidance, tools and perspective. But ultimately, the real work of healing must come from within the individual.
Holding space for someone is about providing emotional support and unconditional positive regard during a difficult time. It means being fully present and attentive as the other person expresses thoughts, emotions, and experiences, without judgment and with compassion.
This perspective on healing shifts the focus from the healer to the individual seeking healing. Rather than relying on an outside source to fix or cure them, the individual must take responsibility for their own healing journey and do the inner work required.
The healer simply facilitates that journey by creating a supportive space that allows the individual’s “inner healer” to emerge and do its work. In the end, true healing is an inside job that comes from going within. The healer is there to hold the light so we can find our own way.
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