Self-Guided Healing and Mental Health Recovery

“When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” —Rumi

One of the underlying themes of this blog is to give those with lived experience of mental illness agency in their own healing. It is empowering to know that we can guide our own healing, tailoring it to fit with what we know to be true about ourselves.

I wanted to be an archaeologist/explorer/detective as a child. I wanted to know the answers of life’s mysteries. Was there really a lost island of Atlantis? Was there life in space and did the government already know about it (lol)? What was the Bermuda Triangle? What could be discovered in Egyptian tombs? I had so many questions with few concrete answers. Perhaps this is an accurate description of what it is to be human.

This blog series, Mental Health Mapping, takes the reader through an excavation of what mental health recovery means. There are so many questions. It is a constant exploration and experimentation with tools and wisdom. It is a road with mysteries, discoveries, and continual unfolding of what it means to be well.