Plant Medicines The Great Healers
I used to think healing was something we finished. That once we processed a wound, cried the tears, forgave the people and made peace with the story, it was overāwrapped up, done, behind us. But the medicine has a way of showing us what we canātāor wonātāsee on our own. And sometimes, what it shows us feels like betrayal. Because there we areācracked open again. Sitting with something we thought we already faced, already fixed, already released. But hereās what Iāve come to believe... When an old wound resurfaces, itās not because we didnāt heal it the first time. Itās because weāre ready to heal it deeper. The first time we process something, we meet it with the wisdom, experience and capacity we have in that momentāand thatās enough. Itās enough to take the edge off, to start the work, to soften the sharpness of it. But growth changes us. The work we do expands us. We gain more wisdom, more insight, more tools and when the medicine brings us back to something, itās because weāre ready to meet it from this new perspective...with more courage, more compassion and more clarity. Itās not punishment. Itās permission. Permission to go deeper. To unravel the parts we couldnāt touch before. To let go of what we werenāt strong enough to carry thenābut are strong enough to face now. Itās easy to feel like weāre failing when we find ourselves back in the same pain. But what if weāre not failing? What if weāre being invitedāto step into the kind of healing that only comes with time, with growth, with knowing ourselves better than we ever did before? So when the medicine takes us back, maybe itās not asking us to relive the past. Maybe itās asking us to reclaim ourselves from it. And thatās the work. To let it hurt again. To let it show us the layers we didnāt even know were there. To trust that revisiting doesnāt mean regressingāit means weāre strong enough now to handle what we couldnāt handle then. This is how we heal. Layer by layer. Moment by moment.