The Aftermath of Healing

Marianna Jaross

Have you been on a self-development journey?

You read the books, listen to the podcasts, understand your attachment patterns, and resolve that you understand yourself.

You try to eat nourishing food, move your body, understand your spiritual side, connect with others.

If you are regurgitating what you already know, have reflected on, or changed, you are ready for the following step: That is doing the thing.

The thing is the dream in your heart. Your most meaningful contribution.

The thing that lights you up, makes your heart beat faster, and changes your whole face when you speak about it.

The dream in your heart that haunts you, even if it has hidden behind practicalities, previous masks, or doubts.

Your task, should you now choose to accept it, is to pivot towards the good, the meaningful, the psychological sunlight, the connections that are serving you.

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Are triggers, wounds, and your past going to arise? Likely yes, but hopefully you have the tools or the ability to help-seek (which you’ve done before) in order to learn and address your previous or unexpected challenges.

And there may always be challenges.

Your job is to pay attention to the scar tissue of your past when it is tender, and also understand that your story doesn’t have to define you.

So what now?

Your job is create the life that you want, to take one step towards your dreams when you can, to look after yourself, and to connect with nourishing others.

If you have been doing the work to heal, some of it is because deep down you wanted to give yourself the best chance of the dream in your heart.

The path of trying is sacred, even when there are twists along the way.

© Marianna Jaross 2025

Note: This article is independant of my professional association(s) and workplace(s).