Healing Feels Like Grief: Why Getting Better Hurts More Than Falling Apart

People love to romanticize healing. They’ll tell you it feels like peace, like sunlight breaking through the clouds, like finally breathing after being underwater for years. They’ll tell you that once you get sober, or cut out toxic people, or find therapy, or meditate long enough, you’ll feel free.

Nobody tells you the truth.

Healing doesn’t feel like pe…