Stop Snipping the Weeds: Why Healing Won't Stick Until You Get to the Root

We often treat our anxiety or patterns like uninvited guests who just showed up at the door. But symptoms don’t arise out of nowhere; they have slowly been brewing over time. I often think of gardening when I think about getting to the root cause of something, and how to heal and grow from it.

It’s like heading into a garden full of weeds. Often, we try and take the short route, the quick option when it comes to healing. We do the bare minimum and hope that is the end of it. It’s like snipping the heads off all the weeds. For a brief moment, the garden looks better, it looks healthy and clear. But we all know you didn’t get to the root. So, it can’t be a surprise that shortly after, the garden is a mess again. You have to start over because you didn’t get to that damn root.

Regression is often low on the list of healing modalities. And while some other methods give us short-term relief, they are often just a bandage. My clients (many of them healers themselves) usually arrive frustrated, anxious, and depressed because they know they have a deep emotional problem they just haven’t been able to shake. Regression is the transformational tool we use to go back and find out what caused it.

We stop fighting our own shadows and start understanding them. It’s the difference between putting a bandage on a wound that won’t close and finally pulling out the thorn that’s been there for decades. Once the root is exposed, the healing doesn’t just start it sticks.