
08/18/2025
✨ One of the biggest ways we keep ourselves in suffering is by believing we have to be “fully healed” before we can move forward. We convince ourselves we have to reach some perfect place of wholeness before we deserve love, peace, success, or joy.
But the truth is, healing isn’t a straight road. It’s not a checklist we get to cross off once and for all. It’s cyclical, messy, and alive. Some days we feel strong and centered. Other days we feel like we’ve gone backward. That doesn’t mean we’ve failed—it means we’re human.
When we put pressure on ourselves to “arrive” before allowing ourselves to live fully, we create unnecessary suffering. We block blessings that are already trying to reach us. The reality is, you don’t need to be 100% healed to be worthy. You don’t need to wait until every wound is closed to receive love, abundance, and beauty in your life.
🌿 Here are 3 gentle ways to move past this belief:
1. Shift your measure of progress. Instead of asking, “Am I healed yet?” ask, “Am I showing up for myself today?” Healing is in the daily steps, not a final destination.
2. Practice receiving while healing. Allow yourself to accept love, kindness, and opportunities—even when you don’t feel “ready.” Let life support you as you grow.
3. Embrace the both/and. You can carry wounds and experience joy. You can be working through pain and still be worthy of love. Healing and living are meant to coexist.
You are allowed to hold both your healing and your joy at the same time. You are allowed to be a work in progress and still be deeply deserving. 💫
Take a breath. Release the expectation of perfection. You’re already worthy. You’re already enough.