I’ve been sitting with this question lately — Do we really need to heal the past before we can step into our future selves? We’re told so often that healing is about fixing, forgiving, rewriting, or unpacking every painful thing that’s ever happened. But what if… it’s not? What if instead of constantly digging through the past, we simply accepted it ? Accepted that it happened. Accepted that it shaped us. And then chose — right here, right now — to be fully present . The weig