Healing isn’t always sage, crystals, or perfect journal entries. Sometimes, it’s crying on the floor at 2AM. Sometimes, it’s canceling plans because your body says “no more.” Healing can be raw, confusing, and unglamorous. And that’s okay.

Social media often portrays healing as a clean, aesthetically pleasing journey. But real healing is messy. It involves shadow work, facing the parts of ourselves we’ve ignored, rejected, or hidden. It brings up anger, grief, and resistance. It requires unlearning patterns that kept us “safe” but stuck.

Many of us enter therapy or self-work expecting linear progress. But healing moves in spirals. One day you may feel grounded and empowered, the next you’re triggered by something you thought you’d overcome. This isn’t failure, it’s the nature of healing. Each layer you peel back gets you closer to your core.
There is strength in showing up when it’s hard. There’s courage in resting when you need to. Healing asks for your honesty, not your perfection.
So the next time it feels like you’re falling apart, remember. Falling apart is often the first step toward coming back home to yourself.

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Meet Javonna Arriaga

 
Javonna was born on Turtle Island. Her ancestors are from Abya Yala and her lineage is from the Moche and Chiriqui tribes. She is the daughter of Heather Miramontes-Garcia who is the daughter of Oscar Arriaga, Afro-Peruvian and Marcia Bishop, European American. She is the daughter of Gerardo Perez, though she honors her father's Panamanian lineage she does not know her father. She has been most directly raised by her mother Heather and grandfather Oscar. Javonna also spent two years in foster care and honors her foster parents Jen and Brad Newton as part of her family as well. Together this community has contributed to Javonna's journey.
Javonna is CIS-gendered, able-bodied, pansexual, and a relationship anarchist. Javonna's first language is English and she is fluent conversationally in Spanish.

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