Coming out of the numb bubble:

Coming out of the numb bubble: Before healing we live in such denial of our true feelings that we don’t even feel pain. We live in a numb bubble, which, although deadly, often feels pleasant. Opening up ancient wounds forces the eruption of buried feelings, which tend to be ugly, stinking, painful, and pressured. This is a great shock to a system which has long become accustomed to feeling little or nothing – just as eating healthy food can initially feel sickening and even deadly for a junk food addict or a starving person. Few of us enjoy the grieving process, few enjoy crying, few enjoy the prolonged miseries and anxieties and radical self-doubts and sleepless nights and even physical illnesses associated with deep emotional recovery and growth, but such is change. It has its costs, but for us the true willing and able who undertake its true journey, the benefits, in the long-run, are wonderful and are the strong foundation for a recovery that works.