I used to think healing meant ridding the body and the heart of anything that hurt. It meant putting your pain behind you, leaving it in the past. But I'm learning, that's not how it works. Healing is figuring out how to coexist with the pain that will always live inside of you, without pretending it isn't there or allowing it to hijack your day. It is learning to embrace the people I love now instead of protecting against a future in which I am gutted by their loss.
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I know all too well that it takes only one bad night or one bad-news bearer to revise the way we remember everything before and after.
Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad
Just want to remember these nuggets.
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