You don’t owe anyone a quick recovery. Heal at the speed you actually heal.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Other people’s comfort is not a deadline for your healing. There is often a quiet pressure to be fine again, because your being fine makes everybody else’s life easier, and it is easy to start performing a recovery long before you have one. Pretending mostly delays things and leaves you doing the hard part alone.

If you are being hurried, you can say you are still working through it and leave it there. Move at the speed of what is actually happening rather than what the room would prefer. Keep one person close who does not need you to be finished.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who are you rushing your healing for?

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