When people hear the word healing, they often think about recovering from a breakup, moving on from a difficult experience, or learning how to think more positively. My journey taught me that healing goes much deeper than that.
For me, healing was never about fixing isolated events. It was about uncovering the roots beneath them.
I began my healing journey without a guide. There was no roadmap, no mentor walking me through the process, and no clear understanding of what was waiting for me on the other side. What I did have was the willingness to look at my life honestly.
I uncovered my trauma.
I addressed it.
I made difficult decisions, including going no contact with people and situations that no longer aligned with my healing.
And from there, my real journey began.
What many people don’t talk about is that healing can require you to lose parts of your life before you can rebuild them. Healing isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it asks you to release identities, relationships, beliefs, and survival strategies that you’ve carried for years.
I had to rebuild from the ground up.
For nine months, I focused on understanding my patterns, my conditioning, my beliefs, and the experiences that shaped them. I wasn’t interested in reliving every painful moment. I wanted to understand the roots.
Why did I think the way I thought?
Why did I attract certain experiences?
Why did I respond to life the way I did?
Why did certain wounds continue to repeat themselves?
As I dug deeper, I began to understand that healing is not just mental.
Healing is mind, body, and spirit.
As I worked to integrate all three, something unexpected happened. Spiritually, I felt myself changing rapidly. My awareness expanded. My understanding of myself deepened. My connection to Spirit grew stronger.
Yet my physical reality seemed slower to respond.
I found myself in a strange space where internally I felt transformed, but externally my life had not fully caught up to those changes.
That’s when I began exploring root work.
For me, root work became a natural extension of root healing.
After spending months examining the roots of my thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and conditioning, I felt called to explore the spiritual side of transformation through prayer, candles, tarot, ancestral connection, and other spiritual practices.
What I discovered was that healing and root work were never separate paths.
They worked together.
The healing work gave me awareness.
The root work gave me direction.
The healing work helped me understand what needed to change.
The root work helped me strengthen my relationship with Spirit as those changes unfolded.
Many people believe that once they heal, everything they’ve ever wanted will immediately appear. I believed that too at one point.
What I learned instead is that healing builds the foundation.
Healing doesn’t guarantee a perfect life.
Healing creates the stability required to build one.
Once the foundation was in place, I became more aware of the gifts that had always been present within me, my intuition, my spiritual connection, my relationship with my ancestors, and the wisdom that had been waiting beneath years of survival.
That is what accelerated my journey.
Not because healing ended.
But because healing created the conditions for deeper spiritual growth.
Healing andHoodoo is not about choosing between psychological healing and spiritual work.
It is about recognizing that both have their place.
The roots of our wounds deserve attention.
The roots of our spirit deserve attention too.
And sometimes the most profound transformations happen when we honor both.
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