“i don’t believe healing has an end point. i don’t believe that if i just do enough things that i can clear my entire body of traumatic residue. i don’t even think i want that because what lives in me as a result of the trauma i have experienced also blooms with brilliance, wisdom, resolve and determination in a very alive way. it’s where all i create and offer originates. i don’t believe people have to have reached some peak healing place to be well. i believe there is wisdom in the wounds and sometimes we don’t need to rush each other out of them...i’m not trying to reach some high-vibe-all-the-time-abundance-abundance-abundance-no-trauma-depression-anxiety-here place. i’m trying to find a real place. a true place. i’m trying to remember that the dark is just as bright as the light.” -Jennifer Patterson / @corpusritual | photo: @mollyboha #nonlinearhealing #survivor #trauma #darknessandlight #woundsbloom #woundtending #sexualviolence #embodiedjustice