How do you know if you're healing?

Things that used to hurt you tend to hit differently, almost like they bounce off of you a lot easier.

You can see how unfitting something/someone is before it’s/their toxic place within you gets too planted.

You easily spot patterns that created inner and outer turmoil before, and you refuse to let yourself be subject to those patterns again.

In my experience I never did heal. I just learned how to live with the pain.

Hmmmm
Not sure I’m able to answer that at this time…
I guess being able to breathe without your gut and heart being in a wrenched state

Sleep starts to resurface. Motivation slowly becomes a thing again. Genuine desire to reach out to others.

does it still hurt ?

The things that use to be a struggle for me aren't so hard anymore

It's a different kind of pain

The pain is not as intense

slight progress

Your probably never going to heal until you give up things.

We're not. Life is just a constant rate of decay until death, and most changes are just dramatic increases in decay.