What does healing look like when pain sticks around?
Healing and recovery are not the same thing. Recovery, for many, means the pain is gone. Healing can happen whether or not it ever fully leaves.
Healing means you become a participant in your own life again. It's acceptance, not as giving up, but as a place to stand and begin. From there, you can recruit everything you already have as a human being: attention, kindness, curiosity, connection.
As you work through CRUSH, you may notice you're enjoying life more. You may notice that you have more energy because you are making helpful changes to your eating habits, your sleep habits, your exercise habits, and your mind habits. Just paying attention opens you to moving toward healthier habits without resistance. You may realize that you are more aware of the small joys of life, more able to connect with the world around you.