Healing isn't Linear

Dear Darling,

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Healing isn’t linear. 

I know how frustrating it is—
You think you’re finally past it, finally feeling better…
And then, out of nowhere, you’re back in it again.

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The symptoms return.

The emotions resurface.

I’ve been doing my vertigo exercises only to be back under observation for a possible stroke this past weekend. Thank God it wasn’t.

I was frustrated - laying in the hospital for hours on end - taking continuous tests and hungry.

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And it’s so easy to wonder… Was any of that progress even real? I mean, I was beginning to feel better.

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But this is the message I’m passing on to you, darling—
​You are not back at the beginning.

Healing doesn’t move in a straight line.
​It loops. It dips. It circles back—​
Not to punish you, but to refine you.

You are not failing.
​You are integrating.

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Right now, take a deep breath in (go ahead, deep breath in)… and let it go. Then, if it feels good, gently sway side to side.

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Let your body remind you—
Even when you go back, you’re still in motion.

Even when old wounds resurface,
​You’re meeting them as a new version of you.

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Healing isn’t about never feeling pain again.
​It’s about learning to hold yourself through it.

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So, the next time it feels like you’ve taken a step back,
Please remember—you’re not starting over.

Know that you are still moving forward, even when it doesn’t feel like it.

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With love,
Vee

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