The Global Achievers Issue 9/2020 | Page 29

wherein I understood that it would not be simply a sharing of the many traumatic episodes I had lived to that point, inasmuch as it would be the layers of healing I had experienced.

Healing, let’s just take a moment and consider the true ramifications of what this word truly means. Webster’s dictionary defines healing as; “The process of making or becoming sound* or healthy again.”

When I process the complete definition of what healing means now in my life, I find myself literally staring at the word “sound” found within the definition. I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t believe that I have ever included the term “sound” within my perception of what true healing represents. Sure, I have always understood healing to mean the process of something repairing itself, or something becoming whole again…returning to the state it originally was, but never have I ever included the idea of something becoming “sound” within my healing mindset.