“We don't need to follow prescriptions to be pure angels, or wild rebels, wearing capes, riding tigers and copying other guides - or partaking in other 'quick fix' strategies - to become successful healers.We must be everything we are. The beautiful, paradoxical soft, wild magic of our truth - we can be it *all.* There's no choosing between seemingly opposing aspects of ourselves.”
- Nicole Barton
We often begin a journey into opening to our magical gifts with a 'perception' of what it looks like to be a "healer" - and some fear about 'belonging' in that community.
There are so many 'quick fix' narratives out there to reinforce that there's 'one way' - a way that we have to be, in order to 'belong' in the world.
It's conditioned. Perhaps it is even a story of: "Don't be a healer/witch at all, that's "too woo'" - as we find ourselves donning our corporate mask one more time to fit in, or contorting ourselves into a life we no longer fit in, so that we stay safe. Not really knowing *where* we fit any more.
And we're so used to doing that, that even when it comes to owning the title of 'healer', we begin to imagine that maybe we don't even fit into the 'healer' box that the constructs of our minds have created.
We wonder, "what if I don't fit there, either?!"