"You'll never know where you can go if you decide to stay where you are."You can't heal in the same place that made you sick either.
So, get out of your cocoon and find your 'Wonderfully You' space. Maybe travelling could be a good solution. Travelling has a huge impact to anyone who's experiencing mental health struggles. We live in fast moving, toxic environs and therefore experience major struggles with our mental health.
During my self-healing journey, I travelled a mysterious journey of battling with fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear exaggerated my OCD, I suddenly did not like the dark at all. I never liked clutter and I could not stand meeting strangers on the way. This kind of fear is real and it is disastrous. You got to do something immediately.
Fear is an unpleasant response triggered by either the perception of danger, real or an imagined situation. Fear could actually be a good trigger if it causes you to flee danger, but only becomes a threat if it leads to anxiety. That's what my fear led to. Fear robbed me of my happiness, strength, courage, well-being. My health detorariated drastically and I felt lost. At some point, I believed fear is a demon that was haunting me. I suffered nightmares and my sleeping pattern was disruppted. When I couldn't endure it any more, my family had to move to a different city, a change that gave me a huge relief. You are the sole owner of your well-being in this world. You have to stand up to your challenges and failures in order to achieve your dreams. Fight for your successful healing without giving up.
I needed an immediate change to heal. The new change helped speed up my recovery since I was able to unplug from my fears and adopt to the new evironment. Though the process wasn't easy, and it required me to accept the change in order to attain healing, it was better an relieving. "The process of self-discovery is not just about unearthing nasty events we have encountered in the past, it is also about finding our strength from deep within ourselves. You have to be extra strong to dare your fears in order to get your 'Wonderfully You' state back. You need grit, a good support system, courage to overcome challenges, safe and clear boundaries and a clear mind set as well.
"It doesn't matter who you are, what you did in the past, what happened to you a while ago, where you have come from or what people say about you." This is a powerful lesson I learnt during my self-healing journey. This lesson gave me an urge to shift my environment. I dared my fear, travelled to Sudan and experienced a whole shift of my life. The cultural shock, climatic change, language, food and everything else was so thrapeutic.
"Sometimes it's good to stand alone, even if everybody else is against you so as to prove that you are actually standing without falling." I hope you can have it all eventually. Good luck in your self-healing journey.
So, what do you choose? Fear or dare to heal?
