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Healing Isn’t Always A Glow-Up – Sometimes It’s Just About Getting Through The Day

by Dean Zaini
June 4, 2025
Image Source: Pexel / Miriam Alonso

Image Source: Pexel / Miriam Alonso

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Healing isn’t always graceful. It’s not always crying in the shower with background music or journaling in a café while sipping oat milk lattes. Sometimes healing looks like sleeping 12 hours straight. Sometimes it means cancelling plans you were actually excited about.

Sometimes it’s letting that one unread text sit there for days – not because you don’t care, but because you’re just too tired to feel. And that’s valid too. Not every chapter in your recovery comes with a glow-up or a grand breakthrough. Some days, healing is just about keeping yourself alive in the quietest, gentlest way possible.

The Myth Of Inspirational Healing

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We live in an era when healing is supposed to look like a highlight reel. Social media shows us recovery as perfectly curated journal pages, yoga poses on mountain tops, and glowing skin selfies captioned with #GrowthGoals. It feels like everyone’s meant to bounce back in 30 days flat – and look flawless doing it.

Healing isn’t neat or Instagram-worthy. It’s slow, messy, and mostly unseen. The pressure to look “inspirational” while you’re still struggling can feel like failure – but you’re not. You’re just human, and healing doesn’t owe anyone a pretty story.

What Healing Actually Looks Like

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Forget the perfect Instagram glow-ups. Most days, healing is doing the bare minimum and calling it a win. It’s sleeping in, missing breakfast, canceling plans without guilt, or ignoring messages – not because you don’t care, but because you need space.

Sometimes healing is just putting on pants instead of pajamas or letting the dishes pile up while binge-watching your favourite show for the tenth time. These small, quiet moments don’t make good captions, but they keep you going. Sometimes, the bravest thing is just showing up for yourself, even if it means hiding under a blanket and pressing pause on life. And that’s perfectly okay.

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The Flatline Phase

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The flatline phase is the quiet, in-between part of healing where things don’t feel terrible, but they don’t feel great either. It’s not a dark spiral, but it’s not a big comeback – more like emotional rehab, a slow, steady rewiring of your mind and heart.

You might feel numb or bored, stuck in a limbo where you’re not crying or laughing. Motivation dips and things feel flat. But this “flatline” isn’t failure. It’s the pause your mind and heart need to rebuild. So if healing feels slow or like treading water, you’re right where you should be.

Healing Without The Hashtag

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Healing doesn’t need an audience. Sometimes the quiet, private moments are the strongest. You don’t owe anyone updates or have to turn your pain into something “inspirational” for others to get it.

Choosing rest over hustle, silence over explanations, and solitude over socialising isn’t weakness – it’s self-care. Progress doesn’t have to be visible to matter. So if you’re healing quietly, and off the grid – that’s perfectly okay. You’re still moving forward, even if no one’s watching.

Healing In Your Own Time

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Healing isn’t a race or a perfect story. Sometimes it’s just getting through each day quietly, without big moments. Take all the time you need to fall apart and rebuild – at your own pace. If today you just kept going, that’s enough. You’re still healing and growing, even if no one else sees it.

So give yourself permission to heal however you need to. Because healing doesn’t always look inspirational, and that’s perfectly okay.

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