Healing is a dirty process. It’s not weightless. It doesn’t feel like one of those sweet full moons. It feels like broken bones and rotting flowers and relentless pain. It’s an internal chaos and it is laced with darkness, with broken mirrors, with injured howling. It growls and cracks and hurts. It grabs the back of your neck and forces you to stare at the shadows inside of yourself. It strips you down until you’re shivering and broken and whimpering. And when it has you there, naked in the dirt of your own undoing and you think you’ll die at the feet of this process – it bends down, puts its lips against your heart and kisses until something in you, sews back together.