Hello and welcome back to the Self Healer Soundboard. This episode we're going to talk about healing journeys.

And now for most of us, they are the farthest thing from being linear.

This question came from a response on Instagram. So each week we've been asking the community on both Self Healer Soundboard and my personal Instagram, Jenna Weeklin.

There are questions for our question put up each week for you guys to send in your questions and topics that you would like us to discuss.

So I pulled this one from there that really spoke to us and the actual response is please discuss seeing a huge growth in progress and then navigating a huge downturn in progress.

So as Nicole is saying, healing is very much not linear. It is very much an up and down roller coaster.

Yeah, so I want to first acknowledge anyone out there who's resonating with this question, all of us who have been making new choices and beginning to see the accumulation of growth.

And I'm highlighting that part first because growth doesn't happen overnight. I know for me, I didn't start to make new choices and my world didn't change immediately.

However, over time, very gradually it did. So first I want to honor that growth piece of this question, anyone out there who's seeing the progress, right means that you're making new choices.

We're already shifting out of that autopilot, as we say, or all of the condition patterns that most of us have been living, which brings me to the second piece of this.

Our subconscious mind actually doesn't like all of this progress. As we begin to change more and more, as we begin to think new thoughts to be a new way in the world.

In our subconscious mind, it begins to feel threatened. We talk a lot in our content and our work in the circle about familiarity and how for our subconscious that which is known is that which is safe. It's predictable.

So anytime we venture again into progress into new things, we have a pull to go back to that familiarity. It's actually called the homostatic impulse.

It's that desire to actually return to those familiar condition pattern. So I'm saying all about to say that growth followed by downturn, setbacks, whatever we want to call them returns to the familiar is actually continued evidence that we're changing.

Because our subconscious again gets more and more threatened as we do more and more new things.

I really love and appreciate starting this conversation off with that acknowledgement that Nicole is mentioning that even having that awareness of seeing huge growth and progress.

Yes, you may be noticing it very much in contrast of what you're seeing as a downturn or a breakdown. And in a lot of ways too that downturn or that breakdown, I keep putting it in quotes in my mind as I see that because I think it really serves.

And it's very much that contrast of things were going so well and now they seem to be falling apart.

Well, the very fact that they feel like they're falling apart also allows you to see how much progress you have made, how far that you have come to really have that contrast in comparison.

So there really is a beautiful teacher in that, you know, quote unquote downside, but I do appreciate always Nicole starting off with with that acknowledgement for yourself and that acknowledgement to you even being here to see that huge growth.

And progress and to be sort of in this pitfall now does say a lot about how far you've been on your journey and also acknowledging that our journeys are just that they are journeys.

They are lifelong journey. So it is a rise and a fall continuously and that next pitfall will be in relation to the last rise that you had.

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