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Therapy as a Healing Process(Date 20th March 2025)


Therapy isn’t a magical fix. It’s not a quick prescription for happiness or a shortcut through the complexities of human emotion. Rather, it’s a slow, often painful, but ultimately rewarding journey — a process of healing, unlearning, and rediscovery. It demands patience, vulnerability, and a willingness to sit with discomfort. True transformation in therapy doesn’t happen overnight; it unfolds gradually, often quietly, in the spaces between words, in the moments of courage when we dare to confront the parts of ourselves we’ve long hidden away.


In my own times of personal grief, I came to understand something profound: it wasn’t the "solutions" people offered that brought me comfort. No advice, no pep talk, no attempt to "fix" my feelings could truly reach the aching parts of me. What made all the difference were the rare and sacred moments when someone simply sat with me in my pain — without judgment, without rushing me toward "getting better." Just their quiet presence, their willingness to witness my hurt without trying to erase it, was healing in itself.


This is, in essence, what therapy offers — a sacred space where pain is not minimized, but honored; where silence can be as powerful as words; where just being seen and heard can begin to sew together the torn edges of one’s spirit.


Therapy teaches us that healing isn’t always loud or visible. Sometimes, it looks like sitting in a room with someone who believes in your capacity to heal even when you yourself cannot see it yet. It’s about creating a space where vulnerability is not a weakness but a bridge toward growth.


One day, I hope to be someone who can offer that quiet, healing space for others. To sit with them in their darkest hours, not trying to pull them out of the dark prematurely, but simply being there — a steady, compassionate presence that reminds them they are not alone. I aspire to be a reminder that healing, though slow and sometimes messy, is possible, and that just being present for someone in their pain is, sometimes, the greatest gift we can offer.


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