We are wired for healing. Our bodies and our brains know how to heal, and move towards this phenomenon without our even realizing it sometimes. Think about a physical wound. You don’t have to tell your cells to begin to make new cells, to seal over the wound to protect inner layers from infection, to heal and recover. Your body just does it.

Sometimes, though, there are barriers to our healing. We keep getting injured. We don’t take time to slow down to heal. We push ourselves (or our relationships) too hard, too fast, too much. Or maybe we abandon ourselves and others, in both significant and subtle ways. And the healing gets hijacked.

What are we healing from? What is mental health awareness anyway?