June Newsletter: The quiet strength of healing.
As i reflect on my practice over the last few weeks, I have realised that there’s a kind of strength that rarely gets acknowledged; the strength it takes to keep healing even when it feels messy, slow, or invisible.
Naturally, we all have expectations when it comes to doing ‘healing work’, often this is portrayed as lots of light bulb moments, manageable crying, and everything is done on a relatively quick timeline. Anyone that has been to therapy will tell you, it often looks very different. Healing, which can be described as the process of learning and unlearning, is never a linear process, its cyclical, which means it can be exhausting at times by nature. You return to points that the logical mind responds to by saying ‘i’ve done this already’, ‘i’ve been here before?", ‘when will this stop?’. Sometimes healing isn’t peaceful, it’s actually a combination of very heavy and messy emotions, that can look like some of the following:
Grieving a timeline that never happened.
Waking up anxious and still showing up to work.
Having very little hope that things will change for the better, but still showing up and doing things you know are good for you.
It’s having the courage to say: “I’m angry today” and staying with your body when everything in you wants to leave it.
We often assume healing means being soft, calm, and graceful but real healing often looks like feeling stuck and still choosing not to give up.
If you’re doing this work, the real, raw, tender work of feeling, releasing, and trying again, you’re doing something extraordinary. Even if no one sees it. Even if it doesn’t feel like progress.
🌿 Reminder:
If you are feeling it, you are healing it.
You don’t need to subscribe to an aesthetic of what healed looks like to be healing.
Your healing doesn’t need to look like anyone else’s, it only needs to be yours.
🌬️ A Gentle Breath to Support You
To support your nervous system as you move through the deeper layers of healing, I’ve created a free breath work guide for you; a soft, accessible practice based on coherent breathing.
🌀 [Click here to download the guide]
This breath helps calm your body, regulate your emotions, and return you to a place of quiet inner safety. No timers. No pressure. Just soft presence.
If you are interested in breath work, please do reach out for more information on in person and online classes.
As always take what you need from this and leave the rest.
You’re already healing, even on the days that feel heavy.
And you’re already enough, even in the in-between.
With care,
Preeti
The Healing Practice
