Five Unexpected Signs You’re on your Healing Journey

Many of us have this preconception of what our healing journey must look like.

There are obvious signs that we are on the right path, and yet we might take them as evidence that we are stuck.

We need to remember that healing looks messy many times. We may even feel that we are falling apart when in fact we are evolving, but the transition may be a little confusing.

Five significant signs that we may overlook

1. Relationships are shifting: You are actually making wise choices by being intentional around who you spend time with. You are becoming an observer and develop the capacity to surround yourself with people whose energy is caring, kind and positive. By doing so, you are opening the door to new relationships to come into your life.
2. You are shedding more tears. You feel more emotional and you do not know exactly why. Tears are helping you release stored intense emotions that you were not able to freely express in the past. Crying is the way your body is letting go of sympathetic energy from your nervous system.
3. You are angry. There’s nothing wrong with anger. Allow yourself to feel both your anger and any other emotion that may come to visit you. Your anger may be a mask trying to protect your sadness, or the many wounds you have experienced. Take a look at this blog and this other blog where I explore anger more deeply.
4. You feel you are not being productive. We have been conditioned to do things as we grew up. We were encouraged to being engaged in activities, going places, always doing something in order to be rewarded for some external accomplishment.Being on a healing journey means our focus goes within. We embark on a somatic experience where we start to become more aware on how our emotions feel in our body. We become aware of our multidimensionality and as such we need to nurture and be in contact with our mind, body and spirit.
5. You now know there’s nobody to blame, that you are the architect of your own destiny, and that your choices have led you to where you are now. You raise your awareness and you take responsibility for your wellbeing, and let go of blaming others.

So if you are experiencing any or all of these signs, remember you are on the right path, even when it doesn’t feel like it. You have come a long way. You should be proud of yourself for the courage it took for you to get here. Congratulate yourself, and remember that the healing journey to wholeness and freedom feels messy at times, and that is very normal.