Yes, a very good observation…the process itself can be a chance to build some hardy emotional skills and inner resourcefulness at the very least.
I think that it would be very useful for anyone on a healing journey (and who isn’t by some description?) to become aware of at least some of our expectations and wishes around what ‘being healed’ looks like…what it means. Are our expectations ‘looking forward’ or looking back ‘into the past’? Are we guided by a Magical Misconception that we can arrive in an imaginary ideal ‘before the problem existed’ place …it might be good to remember that that ‘ideal’ time in the past likely contained many of the elements that created ill health to begin with, as you describe below:
Thanks Rick…there’s lots of practical wisdom in your observations.