We don’t heal first and love later.
We heal in love.
Through love. Around love.
In the quiet presence of those who are safe enough, steady enough, willing enough to stay when the edges of our pain show.
I once believed I had to arrive polished, flawless, already whole before I could deserve love. That I needed to stitch up every wound, learn every lesson, and bury every tender ache before I dared to open my heart. I thought love was a prize you earned only when you had nothing left to fix.
But the truth is far gentler, and far more beautiful.
Some of my deepest healing began when love met me exactly where I was, still fragile, still learning, still unsure of the road ahead.
It wasn’t grand gestures or perfect words that brought the shift.
It was a steady hand in mine when I couldn’t stand tall.
It was someone showing up not just for the light, but for the darkness, too.
It was the way they stayed when my voice trembled, when my heart was messy, when the tears wouldn’t stop.
Love is not the reward for healing, it is often the reason we begin.
It doesn’t demand that we rush to fix what’s broken.
It holds space.
It lingers in the room when the silence is heavy.
It sees the fractures and whispers, You are not less because of this.
In that kind of love, you learn you are not too much, not too messy, not too complicated, just human.
And being human is not a flaw; it’s the essence of what makes you worthy.
Maybe this is the miracle of real love:
It doesn’t wait for perfection.
It meets you mid-journey, with dirt on your hands and tears on your cheeks.
It walks beside you while you heal, not to save you, but to witness you, to honor you, to remind you of the truth you’ve forgotten.
We don’t have to be finished to be loved.
We just have to be willing to be seen.
And witness.
And when we are…
We heal.
We soften.
We remember who we are.
May you know this kind of love, the one that stays, the one that softens, the one that makes you believe in your own worth again.
With love, always believing in love that heals🤍
Aniela
www.MindfulTherapist.us
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