Healing in Community

This week, I continued my journey into something new: group therapy — not just as a participant, but as a future co-facilitator, training alongside my therapist.

It’s been one of the most enlightening experiences of my healing journey.

There’s something sacred that happens when you sit in a circle with others who are also trying. Trying to make sense of their stories. Trying to show up for themselves in ways they never learned how to. Trying not to crumble under the weight of everything life has handed them.

One question we explored this week was:
“What emotion do you need today?”

As we went around the room, I noticed something… nearly all of us were silently beating ourselves up — for not being “better” yet, for not making the next move, for not being further along.

But healing doesn’t always look like forward motion. Sometimes it looks like stillness.

And in that moment, I was reminded of the simple, anchoring phrase I’ve been journaling lately:

“Trust the timing of your life.”

It’s okay to take a pause.
That pause can be sacred. Necessary.
A divine act of resistance in a world that equates your worth with your productivity.

It’s okay to say no.
To choose softness, solitude, or home.
To not have the next step figured out.

Because healing doesn’t always happen in motion.
Sometimes, it blooms in the pause.

The Sacred Pause

We live in a world that constantly demands more:
More output.
More healing.
More progress.
More performance.

But today, I’m honoring the in-between — the space between inhale and exhale.
The space between breakdown and breakthrough.
The moment before the next decision.

If you’re feeling tapped out, you’re not broken.
You’re simply full — of emotions, of memories, of questions that don’t yet have answers.

Let today be gentle.
Let your truth be unpolished.
Let your healing be quiet.

Breathe.
Drink water.
Let yourself just be.

Because that, too, is healing.