When Healing Isn’t a Reward — It’s a Return

Taylor didn’t talk about healing like it was a finish line. She talked about it like it was an assignment — one she took on early.

“I thought if I got it all right—if I fixed what was broken—then maybe someone would finally choose me.”

That was the illusion. That healing would make her lovable. That worth was something you earned by working on yourself.

But here’s what changed:

It didn’t come in a breakthrough. It came in a moment of stillness — when she realized:

“I’ve been trying to become someone worthy of love... instead of realizing I already was.”

That’s the shift.

Not the absence of pain. Not the end of struggle. But the dissolving of the reason she thought she had to struggle in the first place.

She stopped chasing healing like a badge. And started using it as a way home.

Because healing isn’t a reward. It’s not something someone gives you once you’ve become easier to love.

Healing is the process of removing everything that made you believe you had to be anyone else.

What This Means for You

If you’ve ever worked on yourself to become acceptable...If you’ve ever thought healing would finally make you enough...If you’ve ever carried the silent hope that getting better would mean getting chosen...

This is your shift too.

You don’t have to become someone new to be worthy of love.

You just have to stop forgetting who you already are.