The Whisper More Powerful Than The Loud Lies
Sometimes we take steps forward in our progress and then take a huge step back. People talk about healing not being linear, and I have seen that. A few weeks ago, I felt like I basically fell down the whole flight of stairs in my healing journey. I had a doctor's appointment that brought out a lot of stress and difficult emotions. The days after the appointment, I felt like I was basically starting all over again on healing. I know that seems extreme, but that is how I felt. My nerves were so bad that I had multiple stomach aches over the past couple weeks as well as a migraine and deep heavy emotions. I thought, "There has gone all this progress I have made". The lies and insecurities just seemed to get so much louder after the appointment. The truth is that this starting over feeling was less so me starting this whole healing thing over again, and more so the deep stuff coming up. It was stuff I thought for sure I had gotten over, and I felt shame not having gotten ...