You think healing means the pain is gone. You think it means you never flinch, never dissociate, never feel the old flood. You think healing means being normal. It doesn't. Healing means staying in the room when the old you would have left. Feeling the wave without drowning. Healing isn't the absence of the pattern. It's staying present when the pattern fires. #healing #traumarecovery #mentalhealth #trauma #nervoussystem