Are You Healed, or Are You Distracted?
Fundraising for the Kids Help Phone with sunflower seedlings The distinction is hard. Is this progress, a stage of grief where you can be distracted and excited for some aspects of your life - leading towards acceptance & joy again? Or are you avoiding your pain with work that takes you away, mentally and physically, from what you should be processing? Fundraising for the Run For Women('s Mental Health) with handmade paper roses The other component of this self doubt, is that people don't appreciate just making it sometimes. Yes, we all want to be healthy and perfect. We all want to be cured. But there is no cure - not for mental illness, not for grief, not for a lot of things in life. The only thing we can do is learn to live with it. People don't like seeing people just "get by". If someone is actively suffering, it is uncomfortable and we can distance ourselves from the situation, judge them - maybe help should we want to fee