SELF-HEALING
self-healing—the good, the hard and the beautiful
In all honesty, I’m not a fan of the term “self-healing”. I very much embody what it literally means but I think that’s why it bothers me so much. It’s sooo—literal. So I’ve been trying really hard to come up with a more poetic or hip term. A term that can smooth over the fact that self-healing isn’t so pretty. In fact, it can get quite ugly as you move through. This is important to know.
But the joke’s on me. I’ve chosen self-healing, a practice I’ve become well acquainted with, as an overarching theme of my business. This requires me to type out the term or speak it aloud several times a day. It really comes down to semantics. I just want it to sound cooler, man. If you got any ideas, let me know!
In the meantime, I’ll be using this space to share my experiences with self-healing. Harsh truth—these stories won’t be picture perfect portraits of how I magically figured out my well-being and life is perfect now. Or how I’ve finally healed my acne-prone skin for good. Or how I’ve perfected my relationship with food and substance use disorder. This is a self-healing in progress, and the most productive way I’ve come to terms with this process is by being honest, open and vulnerable with myself. And that’s what I promise to do in this space. I know I was looking for this kind of real talk in the beginning so I gotta believe others are too.
It won’t be all doom and gloom, I promise. I can feel in my mind-body that I’ve overcome a tough peak on this never-ending self-healing journey. It almost feels like a long overdue “accomplishment”, but it’s also very much due to the world flipping upside down with Covid-19 and the long-overdue spotlight on our country’s deep systemic problems. This mass social, cultural and global reckoning has hit me at a soul level, with newfound perspective that this self-healing shit has nothing to actually do with my ‘self’. The whole reason for this process is to get right with our own shit—our inflicted conditioning, our past traumas with big “T’s” and little “t’s”, our self-narratives that don’t serve us anymore and our deeply ingrained inabilities to love ourselves, ALL in the name of COLLECTIVE WELL-BEING. We as individuals are only as good as when the whole ‘WE’ is good, and we have to fight for that. It starts with self-healing from whatever the fuck you need to self-heal from. Trust me, you know what that is. You just have to start seeking and asking yourself some hard questions.
But to give a few tangible ideas of what I will touch on, I’ll share the tools that have worked for me. That’s adopting an Ayurvedic way of living, and not perfectly but let’s say 80/20. Finally accessing my spirituality that has been patiently swirling in my soul waiting to be discovered. Spending time connecting with nature to support my well-being. And seeking bigger meaning to our purpose here as human-beings. I’ll share what that looks like in my daily routines and lifestyle tips to help guide you in accessing your own tools to support your healing journey. It’s not as deep as it sounds (I mean it is but also it’s not). There isn’t a big secret to it all. It’s just getting into the practice of self-study. Or more importantly, believing there’s a reason to self-study at all.
This is what this space is for—to be open and honest with the harsh truths about self-healing and how we can transition into a more conscious lifestyle with more grace and ease. For me, I had to reckon with the fact that there is no place for perfectionism addiction on this journey. Once I accepted that, I could feel the true self-healing working its magic. That was the needle in the haystack I needed to find. The biggest attachment I was holding on to so tightly. As my grip loosened, I began to find joy and fun in the transition. This is what I want for you—to access those deeply-ingrained habits that are holding you back from accessing your beautiful power so that you can feel what it feels like to start truly loving yourself. This is when it starts to get good. This is when we start to make better informed decisions based on our new self-knowledge so we can wholeheartedly participate in making this world a more just and equal place to live, full of high vibes and all the fucking love.
So that’s Adelyn Be Well in a tiny nutshell. My words, thoughts and ideas were swirling as I wrote this. There’s so much I want to say, share and encourage that it’s hard for me to condense it all into one lane. And just like my thoughts and feelings, I’m constantly evolving these days so who knows how my experiences and stories will shift. But just know, there’s more to come and I’d love for you to join me on the ride. I’d love to connect and build a beautiful self-healing community together with the intention of uplifting collective consciousness. Also, maybe together we can figure out a hipper term for “self-healing”. Don’t you want it to sound cooler?!