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How You Heal

4 minute read | I thought health was the opposite of healing, being so healthy you don't have to heal. But I was wrong.

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Alexa Schirm
Jun 29, 2023
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I thought something was wrong with me. 

Like my body had some hidden curse, I couldn't get well no matter how hard I tried.

I was broken, and that's all there was to it.

If I'm honest, my passion for the health space was to prevent the need to heal. It was to prevent healing by arriving at a place I thought was healthy.

I associated healing and health as ha…

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