The Ache of Awareness: When Healing Brings Dissonance
There is a distinct moment in therapy where dissonance is born. The moment when the wisdom we’ve worked so hard to cultivate comes face to face with a very old pattern — and loses.
And in this space of dissonance, there is a critical choice for us to make:
perceive this dissonance as failure, and lean into anger, blame, and self-hatred
perceive this dissonance as progress, and lean into compassion, understanding, and self-trust