Healing

It is difficult to help other people because we don't always understand what they want, or need, or are asking from us.

Often times people really want sympathy or commiseration and then all I can do is listen.

Other times they are truly searching for a solution to something and all I can do is tell them what worked for me, or what others have told me worked for them.

We are hunter gatherers. We hunt for information and ideas, gather them all together and try to find the right combination, the magic potion, that will work for us.

There are people who are very good at helping us find these things. We used to call them witches and shamans. Today we tend to think of them as doctors and counselors, but even they can only help us help ourselves.

We are unique thinking feeling reacting creatures as complicated as everything else in the universe. Affected by everything that touches us. Roiling in feelings. Filled with imagination. Packed in superstition. Full of possibilities.

We need each other, but we are still singular creatures who heal from the inside out.