The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

164 BRIANNA WIEST
Healing your mind is completely different, because you
aren’t returning to what you were before. You are gutting
yourself and becoming someone entirely new.
If that seems a little bit violent and harsh, it should. Healing
is not a lovely ascension into comfort and wellness to
be experienced once and forevermore. Healing yourself is
the most uncomfortable, disruptive, important thing you
will ever do.
Healing yourself is returning to your most natural state,
which is hungry for personal freedom, irreverent to the
suffocating opinions of others, creates without doubt,
shows up without fear, and loves without stipulations and
agreements and conditions. Who you truly are is at once
the best version of yourself you might not have ever imagined
and the most essential version of yourself that you
have always been.
And getting to that place? It requires a lot.
Healing requires you to take an honest inventory of your
grudges and aggressions and the wells of longing and fear
you’ve been ignoring all this time. It requires you to take
stock of precisely what is wrong with your life so you can
work to make it right. It requires you to be completely
honest about how you really feel, and then it requires you
to actually feel it.
Healing requires you to feel the deep heartache lingering