The Healing Journey is a psycho-spiritual process of self-discovery that allows us to develop a deeper self-awareness and understanding of the world around us.

Healing is an individual process of becoming whole again and every journey is unique.

Understand that no one’s journey has a quick fix. This is a process that takes lots of time and patience.

The 4 Stages of a Healing Journey

There are four stages of the healing journey:

Awakening – Asking critical questions to find out “who you are”, or more correctly “What do I want?” and “Why?”. In many ways, you are becoming more construct-aware of Reality.

Healing – The system you grew up in wasn’t healthy for your being or allowing your complete being to exist. Now you will reintegrate the parts of yourself that were left behind.

Rebirth – You are rebuilding yourself based on what you’ve learned during your healing. You are now stronger, more whole, and have earned confidence from going through the life journey you’ve experienced.

Embodiment – Now you have more practical wisdom that you will implement in your life and move forward with greater understanding of your Self and the World.

Why is the Healing Journey Important?

The Healing Journey is important because it brings more spiritual awareness to the individual’s life, allowing for emotional and mental growth. This journey allows you to move forward from the past, while letting the past be done with you.

By going through this journey we become more egoically mature, stronger, more whole, due to earned confidence. We also learn new ways to cope with our stresses and having a better inner point of reference to view the situations life subjects us to.

How Do I Start My Healing Journey?

Here are tips on how to start your healing journey:

Recognize The Need For Healing – Admitting that you have a problem is always the first step. You can’t do this is you are always distracting yourself from your emotions, thoughts, and inner pain. This can be called “denial” and it’s not a strength—it’s a weaknesses. Vulnerability is strength.

Seek Support – The healing journey is a lonely path, but it doesn’t always have to be. Talk to trusted friends, therapists, or family members.

Practice Self-Care – You need a stable environment without negative and abuse factors in order to practice self-care. This gives your psyche a place to process any pain, both actively and passively. Take the time to take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This involves eating healthy foods, getting fresh air, adequate sleep, meditation, and so on.

Set Realistic Goals – Don’t expect to heal overnight, you can’t rush the process. But set milestones to aim for and take pride in every step you take towards your goals.

Practice Forgiveness – Forgive yourself for your own mistakes, you didn’t know any better anyways and that’s not your fault. You can also try forgiving others who have hurt you. This way you don’t hang onto anger and resentment that arrests your spiritual and emotional development.

Embrace Your Emotions – It’s important that you allows yourself feel all of your emotions so you can digest and process the sadness, anger, frustration, and fear. It’s by acknowledging your emotions and allowing yourself to observe them until they naturally pass, that you process and heal.

Taking Action – Seek help, join a support group, engage in self-care, pursue your goals, consult your inner resources, and keep moving forward while giving yourself the time to pause and process the past so you can resume moving forward.

What is the Sexual Healing Journey?

The sexual healing journey is a process aimed at overcoming the internal struggles and challenges related to one’s own sexuality. This sexual healing can help overcome traumas, insecurities, and other negative beliefs that we have tied to our sexuality, in order to attain a more fulfilling sex life.

Many times this involves healing and overcoming the internal struggles related to religious conditioning, cultural attitudes, past experiences, and external expectations. Through sexual healing you will break down these barriers and learn to embrace a healthy sexuality.

The following are tips for your sexual healing journey:

Acknowledge the trauma. Admitting that you’ve gone through a distressing event and it has left you hurt is crucial. You can’t fix a problem until you admit that you have a problem.

Seek support. This helps you feel less alone while also being provided much needed support to help cope with the trauma.

Practice self-care. This involves getting sleep, eating well, exercise, and so on.

Find meaning. By giving your suffering meaning, you are able to empower yourself by developing a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.

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What Are Things You Do On Your Healing Journey?

Here are things to do on your healing journey:

Practice Self-Care – You need a stable environment without negative and abuse factors in order to practice self-care. This gives your psyche a place to process any pain, both actively and passively. Take the time to take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This involves eating healthy foods, getting fresh air, adequate sleep, meditation, and so on.

Seek Support – The healing journey is a lonely path, but it doesn’t always have to be. Talk to trusted friends, therapists, or family members.

Set Boundaries – By establishing boundaries you are able to protect your emotional and spiritual well-being. This includes saying no to what doesn’t serve you, cutting off toxic people from your life, staying away from awful situations, and giving time to yourself when you need it.

Practice Forgiveness – Forgive yourself for your own mistakes, you didn’t know any better anyways and that’s not your fault. You can also try forgiving others who have hurt you. This way you don’t hang onto anger and resentment that arrests your spiritual and emotional development.

Embrace Your Emotions – It’s important that you allows yourself feel all of your emotions so you can digest and process the sadness, anger, frustration, and fear. It’s by acknowledging your emotions and allowing yourself to observe them until they naturally pass, that you process and heal.

Find Your Inner Strength – All inner journeys demand perserverance and resilience. Taking the time to collect yourself and gathering your inner resources can help you face the challenges you will face on your healing journey.

Embrace gratitude. Gratitude is how you cultivate a sense of abundance and positivity in your life. In fact, make a list of 100 things you feel make life worth living, you may be surprised at what are the things you appreciate about life.

Learn new coping skills. Examples of coping skills for self-soothing include mindfulness, journaling, creative expression, etc.

Set Realistic Goals – Don’t expect to heal overnight, you can’t rush the process. But set milestones to aim for and take pride in every step you take towards your goals.

Embrace spirituality – By connecting to a higher power through spiritual practices help cultivate an inner sense of peace. It’s up to you to find the practices that best resonate with you.

How is Losing Weight a Healing Journey

Here are three aspects for losing weight a healing journey:

Physical Healing – Losing weight is its own physical healing. This is because reducing weight can improve health, lower blood pressure, improve heart health, etc. On top of this, you can also improve your own body image and self-confidence, while cultivating a healthier lifestyle.

Emotional Healing – Weight loss can also be a journey of emotional healing. This is because a lot of emotional stress can come from feeling overweight. By improving your relationship with food you will gain a better sense of self-control.

Spiritual Healing – By holding a healthy weight you may gain a sense of inner peace, balance, and harmony. This is because you have earned an accurate assessment of how people didn’t look at you so much differently with a few pounds on you.

What is The Healing Journey Through Grief?

Grief is a very human experience that happens after a huge loss, such as the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, or a major life change.

Understand that grieving is complicated and there is no “right” way to grieve.

It is through grieving that we work through our feelings of loss and find meaning in our losses and suffering.

The Stages of Grief

The following are the stages of grief:

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance

These stages are not in any specific order, but they are what you can expect to experience during your healing journey through grief.

The following are tips for your healing journey through grief:

Acknowledge the trauma. Admitting that you’ve gone through a distressing event and it has left you hurt is crucial. You can’t fix a problem until you admit that you have a problem.

Seek support. This helps you feel less alone while also being provided much needed support to help cope with the trauma.

Practice self-care. This involves getting sleep, eating well, exercise, and so on.

Find meaning. By giving your suffering meaning, you are able to empower yourself by developing a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.

Move forward. When the time is right, you will be reborn and your bones with be stronger than before. But don’t attempt to move forward too soon. Just because you are done with the past doesn’t mean it’s done with you. Give yourself all the time you need and be patient with yourself.

How Long Does A Healing Journey Last?

The length of a healing journey varies from person to person. Depending on how bad is the hurt, some wounds can be healed quickly while others can take months or even years. There is no definite timeline because traumas are different and inner constitutions are different.

Understand that this will not be a straightforward process. There are hormonal and chemical processes in your body that are going against you. It’s okay to have setbacks, but your healing demands you move forward and let go of what no longer serves you.

The following are factors that affect how long a healing journey lasts:

The Severity of the Wound is one of the more significant factors that impact the length of recovery. Extreme trauma and abuse will take longer than anything closer to the “white lie” side of the betrayal spectrum.

The Type of Wound refers to whether the damage is physical, emotional, or spiritual. Emotional wounds make you feel bad about yourself. Spiritual wounds make you feel bad about humanity and the world.

The Individual’s Support System can help speed up the healing process depending how well integrated and prepared both you and your wounded healer are.

The Individual’s WIllingness to Heal is the most important factor because you can’t heal until you admit that you need healing.

How To Start A Spiritual Healing Journey Within Yourself

The following are steps on how to start a spiritual healing journey within yourself:

Connect with your inner self. This means taking time to introspect and reflect on your inner thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. You can explore these deeper parts of yourself via journaling, meditating, etc.

Explore your beliefs and values. By exploring your beliefs and values, you can reevaluate and make the changes necessary to connect to a higher power.

Practice mindfulness. Being present and fully in the moment helps build self-awareness and awareness of the world around you. Breathwork, meditation, and activities like this help cultivate mindfulness.

Find a spiritual practice. By connecting to a higer power through spiritual practices help cultivate an inner sense of peace. It’s up to you to find the practices that best resonate with you.

Seek out a community. Connecting with others is a powerful way to move forward on your spiritual healing journey. Consider communities through spiritual groups, religious institutions, and other online communities.

Embrace gratitude. Gratitude is how you cultivate a sense of abundance and positivity in your life. In fact, make a list of 100 things you feel make life worth living, you may be surprised at what are the things you appreciate about life.

Let go of negativity. Negativity prevents you from connecting with a higher power. This is why you want to practice forgiveness, focus on the positives, and release resentment.

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