Taj Arora’s words capture something profound: healing isn’t about erasing pain or ensuring you’ll never feel it again. It’s about learning to sit with it, understand it, and no longer fear it. Healing doesn’t mean you’ll never revisit the darkness, but it does mean you’ll recognize it when it comes and know how to navigate it.
For me, one of the most valuable things that has come from this journey is the ability to understand others. The more I understand myself—why I feel the way I do, why certain things trigger me—the more I can extend that understanding outward. Suddenly, other people’s actions make sense. “Oh, that’s why they reacted that way.” “This is why they think or feel the way they do.” It creates a kind of freedom because you stop taking everything personally.
But healing isn’t a final destination—it’s a practice. You don’t reach a point where everything is perfectly resolved. The emotions will return, but the difference is that you know how to handle them. You might feel like you’re moving backward at times, but you never go all the way back. That’s the real gift of healing—it changes your baseline.
Taj Arora’s words are an honest reflection of what healing truly looks like. Not perfection. Not immunity to pain. But a deep understanding of yourself and, in turn, others.
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