Worth Living Ambassador Michele King
Hi! My name is Michele and I am 30 years old. Living with both depression and anxiety, I want to be a positive force of change to help end the stigma associated with mental illness, with hopes that what I share will help at least one person who comes across it.
Healing
Healing isn’t black and white.
It’s all g r e y matter.
And just when you think you’ve mastered it
there will be another layer to unfold.
People think healing is easy
but true healing is
raw
often painful
and
requires hard work.
It’s demanding.
Expecting you to show up for yourself every day.
It’s going to therapy
and confronting
the deepest parts of yourself.
The parts you would like to keep tucked away and never speak of.
It’s choosing to love yourself,
despite the voices telling you
that you’re not enough.
It’s letting go
knowing you’re doing the best you can.
It happens on an individual basis
and is very much
an inside job.
It’s making strides, a little at a time,
falling down,
and
then
deciding to
get back up again.
It’s good days and bad days.
It’s crying one minute and letting yourself laugh the next.
It’s giving yourself grace.
It’s messy.
It’s real.
It’s beautiful.
No healing isn’t black and white, it’s all
g r e y matter.