We need more than healing!

After almost a decade of working in the healing and therapeutic space, we’ve seen the same pitfall again and again:

Once people begin their deeper healing journey, they can become so focused on healing that they forget the next step. They keep digging and processing… and digging some more. They get lost in their own navel — forgetting the bigger picture, their deeper desires, and the simple joy of being alive.

Healing is not the goal

What we’ve learned from working with hundreds of clients from all over the world is this:

Healing is not a goal in itself.
Healing is a pathway toward something more.

It is the process of becoming more whole — softening the wounds of our traumas, bringing life back into the scar tissue (symbolically and also physically).

Healing creates space for something new. For sweet life to flow through us again.

Two things we tend to forget

1) Healing needs space

It is not the doctor who heals a physical wound.
It is not the shaman or curandero who heals an emotional or spiritual one.

They can help — by cleaning the wound, wrapping the gauze, holding the space — but ultimately, the body heals itself, when given the right circumstances.

Our job is to give it rest. To keep it still.
To allow the body to do its amazing, self-healing thing.

This requires space — time for not digging, but for resting, being, and watching the grass grow.

2) Healing is not the end-goal

Once the wound is healed, we want to use the arm again.

The goal isn’t just to heal the arm — but to explore what we’re going to do with it.
What are we creating, expressing, experiencing through it?

And when we become good at digging into trauma, it’s easy to forget this next step.

But let us tell you — there is always more. We are never done looking inside. There will always be more layers. That’s the beauty of it.

So we don’t need to rush, stress, or try to “get it all done.”

We are never done.

Everything under the sun has its time

There is a time for healing.
A time for opening the wounds and tending to them.
And there is a time to let nature — your body, the earth — do what it always does.

And…
There is also a time to give space to the sweetness of life.

To shift focus from the wounded arm to the hug you long to give.
To make space for love, for pleasure, for life wanting to live through you.

Sometimes, that singing lesson you’ve been dreaming of might be even more medicine for your soul than another therapy session — ideally, creating space for both.

With love,
Stephan and Eva Maria 🌿