Healing Is Choosing to Stay When It’s Easier to Run – Mental Health

Sometimes healing means staying — staying present with your pain instead of numbing it, staying patient when progress feels slow, staying kind when shame is loud. Running is easier, but staying is how wounds finally close.

Avoidance is a common response to pain, but it prolongs suffering. Choosing to sit with uncomfortable feelings allows them to process and pass. Practices like meditation, therapy, and gentle reflection teach people to stay present. Healing requires courage to face what hurts, not escape it.