{"id":3383,"date":"2025-07-25T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:06:35","slug":"healing-isnt-always-measured-by-cured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Healing Isn’t Always Measured By Cured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hopelessness often takes hold when we fear that overcoming\u2013or being cured of<\/em>\u2013anxiety, depression, PTSD, or any other life-altering condition is entirely out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never enjoy life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat happened to me left me messed up forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are lies the enemy is telling your hurting brain. Borrow hope from me, a lifelong visually impaired trauma survivor, that it really IS possible to enjoy aspects of life, engage in meaningful activities, and even reorient your brain to think and feel in healthy ways with support from caring people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you discovered that healing isn\u2019t just about achieving a cure<\/em> of the disease or condition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healing is less about eradicating the challenges altogether and more about gaining tools, purpose, and a circle of support to better navigate the ambushes that result from depression, anxiety, chronic pain, or other physical limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, as long as we are alive in this broken world, our physical or mental health challenges might never fully disappear. Yet, these very same struggles could become the bridge that God uses to connect us deeply with others facing similar battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s difficult to understand why some people experience full freedom from the weight of their mental or physical diseases while others suffer the effects for a lifetime. But we don\u2019t have to understand, or even like, this disparity in order to choose to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This perspective shift pulls us out of the \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore\u201d ditch and revives the hope that got buried with the onset of anguish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wrong goal, all-or-nothing, leads to frustration, overwhelm, despair, and hopelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right goal, progress instead of perfection, infuses our soul with hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because God provides every tool we need to navigate and fight back against the disease\u2013even though some days it gets the upper hand\u2013we consider ourselves true overcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hopelessness often takes hold when we fear that overcoming\u2013or being cured of\u2013anxiety, depression, PTSD, or any other life-altering condition is entirely out of reach. \u201cI\u2019ll never enjoy life.\u201d \u201cWhat happened to me left me messed up forever.\u201d These are lies the enemy is telling your hurting brain. Borrow hope from me, a lifelong visually impaired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Healing-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Healing-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"survivingmypas","author_link":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivingmypastbecauseofmyfuture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}