Your Healing Story

Telling Your Healing Story
A woman I once met, named Sarah, told me her story of how she had once a successful practice as a doctor until she suffered a major mental breakdown. Sarah shared the cause, her treatment and the after effects of her illness. She would never be the same again. Her career as a doctor was over. As we talked, I realized healing takes many shapes. Her healing was not becoming well enough to practice again but regaining her soul. She had to tell a new story about health and well being encompassing her new reality. Healing is a transformation, honoring that which has passed and accepting what has emerged as a gift.

Sometimes you don't heal in the expected ways. A limb does not grow back; you may never speak again after suffering a stroke. Even death can be the kindest healing for a fatally ill loved one.







Above is part of my own "healing story." A collage I created for my journal/scrapbook.

The Healing Process
Mourning the loss of what you had is a natural part of the healing process. After naming your losses, you can look at those losses with an eye towards healing.

~ Things to Remember ~

• Healing has no timetable
• Healing has no set formula or form to it
• Healing is to be honored no matter the form it takes. Some gifts come disguised in plain wrapping.
• Healing is a transformation taking you to new and unexpected levels.
• Healing can mean the healing of your spirit, a relationship or the physical body.

Sharing your tale is an important part of the your healing process. Realize the pain of loss may not go away. It will subside and transform over time, but the experience will contribute to the fabric of your life, and your healing story.

Copyright © 2003 Sandra Schubert. All rights reserved.



About the Author
Sandra Lee Schubert is an interfaith minister, poet and founder of Wild Woman Ministries, a forum to explore and express creativity and spirituality. As a minister and coach, Rev. Schubert helps people discover and unlock their creative potential and is committed to assisting people in fulfilling their dreams. She is the creator and instructor of the Self-Healing Expressions course, Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own. She leads workshops on meditation, creative writing, spirituality, and facilitates a popular writing program called the "Wild Angels" at the historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.


Journaling ~ Scrapbooking Course with Authoring Tools
The therapeutic power of journaling, proven and embraced over the last century by doctors and psychologist, is an effective tool to improve health and achieve healing of the body, mind and spirit. Be guided to create a book about your life in the journaling ~ scrapbooking course Writing for Life. Rev. Sandra Schubert guides you to create a book about YOUR LIFE using techniques such as journaling, morning pages, scrapbooking, meditations, and gentle exercises. Here are some of the things explored on this sacred journey:

• Finding your authentic self, using journal writing and scrapbooking techniques.
• Expressing your life story for yourself and generations to come.
• Examining your birth, childhood, love, work, spirit and healing.
• Self-discovery and self-healing through journaling and scrapbooking.
• Unlocking and expressing creativity in a healing and fun way.

At course end, you will have created a book of your own unique tale and built a foundation for writing for life. It is more important then ever for each of us to know and preserve our stories. It is through knowing ourselves we can become compassionate and generous with those around us. We come to appreciate life's journey. We invite you to start this journey today.