It’s important to have comfort on the healing journey.  Healing asks that you pass through many trials along the way.  It asks that you dip into your well of resilience and call forth your strength and courage.  At times the well gets low.

Whether large, medium or small, a dose of comfort soothes the strain.  Almost miraculously it shelters you and, even if only for a few moments, quells the distress you are going through.

Most often we think of comfort as something that we give to one another.  We often overlook the fact that it is also something that we can give ourselves.

When we take the time to go about consciously creating comfort for ourselves, we are giving ourselves our love, and in so doing we affirm ourselves as beautiful, loving human beings.  That is healing.

You can create comfort physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.  You can find it in so many places – an old worn out pair of slippers, a prayer, a crossword puzzle, a hug, a meadow, even the thoughts you choose.

Wherever you find it, ease your healing journey and give yourself the gift of comfort every day.

You will sometimes find yourself in places you don’t want to be on your route through healing.  It hurts when you are confronted with troubling aspects of yourself and your life.  You don’t want to go there.

When you see these things you don’t like, your first response is to defend yourself.  You want to escape, detour around them.  But, there are no detours on the healing path.  There are only changes in direction.  They might look the same, but they’re very different.

Paradoxically, healing asks that you accept absolutely where you are on the journey, no matter where that is or how much it hurts to be there.  There is only one place to start from at any given time and that is wherever you truly are.  If you keep running away from that place, then you never get started and you never progress.

Throughout your journey, practice gentle acceptance of yourself and your life – in all its parts.  When you reach a painful place, adopt an attitude of curiosity rather than confrontation.  If you feel threatened there, gather the safety you need around you so that you can be in that place, learn from it, heal it and move onward.

Most of us don’t think twice about going to see our family doctor about a physical ailment.  When it comes to seeking help for our emotional distress though, many people feel a reluctance that has its roots in shame.

The concept of health being more than physical health is relatively new.  In the 1980’s we started to hear about the mind body connection.  Now we hear about the mind body spirit connection.  The idea that health has to do with taking care of all these aspects of ourselves is becoming widely recognized.  Still, we are slow to adapt to new ways of thinking.  Old ideas that you are weak and a little weird and scary if you go to a “head doctor” still linger.

Shed any shame you feel about working with a professional for your emotional healing.  You are taking care of your whole health!  In doing so, you recognize and honour yourself as a whole human being.  There is nothing weak or shameful about that!  That is how you come into the fullness of who you are.

When you embark on a healing journey, don’t think of it as an attempt to fix what’s wrong with you.  If you do, you are starting off with the belief that you are in some way lacking.  That’s extra weight that sinks you down even more.

Tweak your focus a little bit.  It takes practice, but you can do it.  You are the commander of your thoughts!

Think of yourself instead without judgment of right or wrong.  Think of yourself as just being.  Then you don’t lack.  You just are.  The question then changes from “What is wrong with me?” to “What choices do I need to make to bring about the change I want in my life?”  One question is loving.  One is not.  Choose the loving one.

You are not fixing what is wrong.  You are crafting a life.  Your life.  Your wonderful life, created by wondrous you!