What is healing?

After spending some of the most transformational months reconnecting with the nature, soil, food, and experiencing the richness of the Balinese culture, I started to notice a shift in my own healing journey, I became curious about different healing modalities that are complementary to the work I do in functional medicine. That’s when I came across the work of Dr. Gabor Mate. Healing as he describes it, is a natural movement towards wholeness. It’s a direction not a destination. A line on the map not a dot. when we think of healing we’re not so much looking at what’s wrong, but where is the person’s wholeness not fully realized or lived out? Healing is also different from being cured, healing implies coming to wholeness, being cured on the other hand implies the absence of disease. So how do we start healing? The capacity to heal is born of the willingness to do just that, to take on that responsibility. It’s a moment to moment commitment. True healing si...