The Truth About Healing: It Can’t Be Rushed

Week 15, 2025

Like primroses in bloom, your healing unfolds in its own time. No rush 🌼

ℱ𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈... 🫶💌☕

The first eight out of the last eleven weeks were intensive.

I’ve been deep in my nervous system practitioner training—an experience that has stretched me, held me, and, at times, completely humbled me.

I went in thinking:

• Alright, just eight weeks.

• I’ll learn more about different areas of the body each week.

• Move through them one by one.

• By the end, I’ll have it all mapped out.

But my nervous system had other plans.

The reality? I’ve spent so much time just on the fascia of the pelvis and ribs. I thought I should be further along, but my body, in its quiet wisdom, kept saying:

⏳ Not yet. Stay here a little longer.

And so, I listened.

And then, something shifted.

As I went on to work with my shoulders, I could feel an opening—like a space inside me had softened. It was subtle, yet profound.

I hadn’t even realised how much I had been holding there—how much tension, how many unspoken words, how much quiet bracing against the world.

There’s something about the shoulders, isn’t there?

• The weight we carry.

• The burdens we don’t even realise we’ve taken on.

• The way we hunch in, protect, or even hold ourselves back.

And yet, when we release—even just a little—it’s like we remember what it feels like to breathe fully again.

Right now, notice your shoulders.
Are they rising toward your ears?
Are they holding tension, even in stillness?

See if you can let them drop—just a little.
No forcing. No pushing. Just noticing.

I knew, as an integrative somatic practitioner (with a background in nursing, psychosocial care, trauma support, somatic meditation, mindfulness, resilience, and yoga), that this wouldn’t be as simple as learning the material and integrating it straight away.

But what I didn’t expect was the amount of resistance I would come up against.

• The places my body refused to move past.

• The emotions that rose up and caught me off guard

• The moments when my nervous system held its ground and said, "Not yet."

I wanted healing to be linear. I wanted it to fit neatly into a box with a clear beginning and end. I thought, as someone that had already done so much somatic work, that I should just know how to move through it, to integrate everything smoothly.

But healing doesn't work like that, does it?

If your inner world is as expansive as the universe,
how does it feel to trust its timing?

If trust feels too far away,
what would it be like to simply notice where you are today—
without needing to change anything?

Healing unfolds in its own way, in its own time.

It asks us to:

• Slow down.

• Revisit things.

• Be with what is present, rather than pushing forward.

Imagine:

You stand at the base of a mountain.
The path is clear, yet you pause.
Instead of rushing, you sit.
The earth beneath you is steady.
You look up, taking in the vast sky.
There is no hurry.
The mountain isn’t going anywhere.

What happens when you trust
that you will move forward when you’re ready?

Our inner world holds things we haven’t even discovered yet.

When we begin to listen—truly listen—we meet that depth.
We might feel small in the face of it, but we are never lost.

At this moment in my own journey, I want to offer you something—words to hold you, the way I have been held.

The Wisdom of Slow

The river doesn’t ask why it flows.
The trees don’t cry when the wind blows.

What if you’re not behind,
but exactly where you need to be?

Let your breath be an anchor.
Let your body be free.

Let the wisdom of slow remind you:
You’re never too late, to 'just be.'

Because sometimes we need to hear it in a way that lands deep in the bones.

I reckon it’ll be about a year before I begin offering workshops and 1:1s on the neuro-myo-fascia approach to nervous system regulation, as I want to fully embody what I’ve learned so I can support others with integrity and care.

In the meantime, I hope these words offer a gentle exhale—a moment of reassurance that our journeys are unfolding in their own time 🫶

𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓊𝒹𝑒,

🙏 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒶 𝓍𝑜