The first step to healing a dysfunction is acknowledging it. Emerging from obliviousness or denial and realizing something is wrong can be frightening and even painful. It may feel as if the ground is falling out from under us. But a reckoning with reality is always necessary before we can progress up the ladder of healing and greater self-awareness. The evolutionary journey isn’t easy and the path sometimes involves taking two steps forward and one step back. But, when we focus on taking these steps one at a time, we eventually move out of the shadow and…

Into the light.