Healing happens in moments as simple and profound as this, when we are able to tolerate, feel, and express something in our relationships that before was out of our reach. It reinstates our abilities to choose something other than what our fear dictates. It will not make us perpetually nice or necessarily peaceful, but it will help to make our responses correlate with what is happening now. Healing, I often say, helps us fight in the places we need to, but love in the places we long to.
