Healing asks how integrity can be restored. Transformation asks whether restoration itself is enough.
Healing asks how integrity can be restored.
Transformation asks whether restoration itself is enough.
Sometimes healing means returning to familiar functioning.
Sometimes what happened changes us so profoundly that a different organization becomes necessary.
Transformation begins when the old structure can no longer adequately contain what has been learned.
The two capacities overlap, but neither should be romanticized.
Pain does not owe us personal growth.