Reshaping Healing: Love and Water
I am just like anyone else, I need love and water. - Prince
Love and water are our primal need for compassionate restoration. A need to be embraced and find comfort through our healing. In our daily lives, we innately seek out individuals and things that afford us the feeling of security that is often cloaked in empathy. Creating and seeking out spaces that allow us to be open, honest, and transparent when expressing our most traumatic experiences. Creating a foundation or president for love to both exist and to be used as the fertilizer for the seeds we will soon plant through our healing journey.
We know love to be an action, a feeling, and even a choice, yet we seldom see love as the foundation for restoration. Although we circle around precursors, such as “self-love is the root of all issues.” We often negate the raw truth of the matter; love has to be the foundation of any growth or healing. As it provides us with compassion, understanding, and empathy, we need to reveal even the most minuscule forms of trauma to ourselves, let alone to others. Love is the necessary environment that informs our ability to relax and explore our own state of being in an intentional space. One forged from the intentionality of being safe, transparent, and open.
However, love alone does not possess the restoring nature we know water to have. Water is the physical representation of fluidity, yet it still has the ability to destroy and reset. Returning to the water allows us to create internal balance, rid ourselves of unearthed trauma and freely walk into a new journey with less baggage. Restoring ourselves in ways that we never thought possible. Water outside of the physical benefit is the necessary catalyst to ensure our personal growth, refinement, and balance. Our primal need for compassionate restoration through love and water allows us to embrace the duality of love and water being soft yet violent. An experience akin to a rose growing through the concrete. Being agile and persistent, the rose still grows to be soft, beautiful, and fragrant.
