prompt response
healing begets healing
“Healing happens when you get out of the way.”
~ attributed to Jeff Foster
See, therapists don’t heal people.
They don’t solve things for them.
Sometimes they help them see
what they don’t want to.
If something is broken they help
locate the fracture, draw on inner
and outer connections to shape
a sort of cast, letting
the miraculous person,
sometimes called “patient”
even when they aren’t,
draw on their birthright strength,
so wonders of healing can happen.
Like when Jorge told me to schedule time
for beating myself up, self-flagellation.
Had to laugh at myself; sometimes
a clear mirror helps direct vision
where it needs to be, so
what needs fixing can
fix itself…it’s just truth-telling,
powerful enough to help
a person find their power,
so they can watch themselves
heal themselves. Once Jorge
helped me see clearly enough to mend
an unhealed love wound fifty years old.
To share clarity of vision, counselors
often need counseling; healing begets
healing begets healing begets health.
~ Wry Welwood
1st of June, 2022
With thanks to the many souls who have helped me know myself.
Written in response to Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)’s prompt in The Brain is a Noodle: Solving, Fixing, Doing.
Thanks to Victor Sarkin of Genius in a Bottle for publishing this piece.