Healing is not linear. (we hear that all the time, for good reason). For me healing is like a spiral staircase with a good dose of yoyo all the way up….
So, when folks want to pathologize our healing process we can tell them, *healing* is a highly disordered process
Because healing is a radically non-linear journey it’s impossible to know what is happening most of the time. Much of the process can involves going into the depths of the unknown, thus healing requires becoming very comfortable with the unknown. That’s not pathological and nonetheless things look pretty dicey sometimes.
Psychiatry, if nothing else, wants to concretize the chaos that can actually open up and become beautiful if we are allowed to move through it.
The mental illness system stops the process with drugs and the chaos becomes crystallized, painful, stuck insanity. Insanity and/or pathology is the suppression of the chaos, not the chaos itself. Life force must flow. Sometimes it’s chaotic…generally, it’s chaotic. Come on. We want to control everything but life says NO WAY.
more on healing
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I told my story. Loudly and publicly. It’s been important to a lot of people. Still, now, the message I get most loudly is SHUT UP. And so I try to move through my life a bit more quietly now. It’s good to learn silence too, it seems.
sitting with what being silent is like is rather illuminating sometimes!
As the nervous system quiets so does the mouth. 😆
Remember, telling the story is important when it’s time to tell it! For all who hold toxic secrets that are making them sick
More about our stories
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We are simultaneously both broken and embodied perfection… no story really holds that — it’s time to dive off the storyboard all together
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If “self-medicating” is done with mindful awareness it is often far better and is healthier than subjecting oneself to neurotoxic pharma. Supporting oneself during healing processes is self care. Learning to listen to and respond to the body is the healing process. Self-medicate? Sounds like another way we are nasty to ourselves. We learn to support ourselves in healthier and healthier ways as we pay attention to our bodies. If we use substances that aren’t ideal they can fall away as our body indicates they are no longer needed. This is harm-reduction and can be practiced with any substance (legal or illegal) and includes food. Harm-reduction can become a way of life as we come to respect our environment as well.
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