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Healing Is A Process: A Process Worth Going Through

Shaun Bradford

This morning, I kept hearing the word “Heal,” so I looked up what I’d previously shared about healing and thought I’d share these two posts I found.

Post #1

May 6, 2024

Heal So You Can Grow written on May 6, 2024

“If you do not heal, you will not grow.

Meaning…

You will never reach your fullest potential if you do not heal. You might get a glimpse of it, but you will never reach it.”

Whew! That last statement!! I don’t know about you, but I want more than a glimpse. I want the experience.

I wrote a follow up post the next year—My Journey With God, No. 92 (May 6, 2024)—here’s an excerpt:

“When I turned 50, I asked God to allow me to live out my next 50+ years differently than my previous, and one of His answers was that I needed to heal. As much as I wanted to reset my life, I still had baggage I never fully unpacked or addressed—shame, guilt, disappointments, heartbreaks, and other hurts. I had to address them first so I could begin healing.”

Post #2

July 17, 2024

Time To Heal written on July 17, 2024

“They say time heals. Sometimes it does, and sometimes not. What I do know is that we will never completely heal if we continue to pretend we were never hurt, or if we don’t fully process the depths of our pain. 

Healing can start by acknowledging, and even saying, ‘That really hurt.’”

That particular post was shared in its entirety. I wrote a follow up post two weeks later (July 28, 2024) that was too long to share—Questions I Asked Myself—but here’s an excerpt.

“Several posts ago I wrote, ‘Healing begins when we acknowledge our pain.’ I saw the future of the unhealed version of me and the future of the healed version, and decided I wanted the healed version. Which meant I had to push through the pain [of acknowledging and addressing my hurts].”

Personally, the healing process has been a journey. I needed to revisit what I had written (in other words, where I was), so I can properly celebrate where I am. I did the work (still working on a few things—it’s an ongoing process😊), and now I’m finally experiencing what it feels like to live from a healed place. Y’all, God is so good—so very good!

Listen, if there are areas of your life where healing is needed, please acknowledge them and start doing the work to heal. Trust me when I tell you that life is so much better on this side of the hurts and disappointments. Now, the process won’t be easy. You’ll still have triggering moments, but the more you push through, the easier and quicker it will be to overcome them.

Heal so you can truly live!♥️

Love you,

Shaun