healing is actually about growth

it’s about becoming whole.

healing is actually about growth
it’s about becoming whole.

Gabor Maté, (1944 – ), Hungarian-Canadian trauma specialist…

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becoming whole — Aug 2024 — © darren harley

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becoming whole

we all suffer
from the human
condition

we all struggle
with change
with loss
with aging
with impermanence

we’re all stressed
anxious
depressed
and increasingly
lonely

we’re addicted
to our screens
our apps
our drugs
our social media

we’re conflicted
divided
isolated
and increasingly
medicated

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we’re in pain
we struggle
we suffer

we’ve been traumatized

we’re in need
of a space
for healing

a space
for becoming
whole

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holistic

we’re bio-
psycho-social
creatures

on a lonely
unforgiving
high tech
low touch
blue dot

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pale blue dot

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering…

Carl Sagan, (1934 – 1996), American astronomer, philosopher, poet…

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more love

what we need
is less anger
more kindness
less hatred
more love

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more space for becoming whole

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courageous conversations about the human condition

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