Healing Takes Time

If you are in a desperate place and feel alone, please reach out to someone for help. I have included resources at the bottom of this page. No matter how dark it looks right now, it will get better, and the world needs you.

“Now this is what the Lord says — the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel — “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, and the flame will not burn you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior.”

Isaiah 43:1–3a (CSB)

Sometimes healing is overwhelming. To get past things that hurt us, we need to really feel them, but sometimes those feelings are too hard to face. The pain, the grief, the mourning of what we thought life would be — these are all complicated emotions that take time to process. There are days when you feel like you’ve made so much progress and you are genuinely proud of yourself and how strong you are becoming. Then something comes along that triggers memories and emotions that you wish you could leave in the past. In these moments, you feel yourself begin to crumble. You wonder if maybe all the healing you thought you had done was nothing more than burying your emotions in the distractions of life. They say time heals all wounds, but without taking the steps to heal, time just fills the hole in your heart with numbness and isolation. If your healing…