Connection as a Practice: Healing in Community
There is a strong cultural narrative that healing is something you should be able to do on your own. Figure it out, work through it, be resilient. For many people, this is not just a belief, it is a form of protection. Doing it alone can feel safer. But many of the patterns we carry were formed in relationship. They were shaped by how we were responded to, understood, or misunderstood.
Because of that, they often need relationship to shift. Not through intensity or force,
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