I Thought I Needed Healing. I Actually Needed to Stop Searching

Through my healing journey, I have listened to a lot of guided meditations on YouTube. I mean a lot—almost every night for at least 10 years. Some nights I’m falling asleep to a guided meditation, flying through space. Other nights I’m dealing with emotions and burdens from my past.


It has helped me tremendously to heal. I don’t know how it works, but it does.
Recently, I noticed that my mother lacked emotional empathy. The way it affected me is that I overthink and dwell on things too much. I have written many articles about this on this blog.


Today, I decided to face it by doing my own guided meditation. The way I do it is I close my eyes, I call in an angel or spirit guide, and I let my subconscious give me the answers I have locked inside.


I asked Archangel Raphael, the angel of emotional and spiritual well-being, to come in. Right when I thought of it, I saw him appear in my mind.


He started doing all kinds of amazing dances, and I immediately felt better. Then I said to him,
“I want to be healed. I don’t want to deal with the past and anger anymore. I want to let it go.”
He kept doing his amazing dances, and then I saw him stop, smile, and say, “Let your anger go. And every time you feel like working on yourself instead of doing something in the physical, tell yourself you are ‘found.’”


I saw a white light flash, and I opened my eyes.
Then I realized the prayer I said years ago, asking God to help me find what I was looking for, even though I didn’t know what I was trying to find.
I realized I need to stop looking and tell myself every time I try to find something or fix something inside of me that I have been found.

It’s okay.


I need to focus on the physical. I feel a lot better, and I feel healed. Good job, Archangel Raphael.

Woman staring at angel

The healing journey is over

I’ve spent the last twenty years trying to heal from trauma and unhelpful thought patterns—struggling to see things as they truly are. I questioned everything about my reality: Why do I see things the way I do? How can I reframe them to see things differently?

For example, I asked myself: Why do I think money is evil? Is this something I truly believe, or is it a belief unconsciously passed down from my parents—something I accepted because I was too young to know any better? Is it really true that money is evil? How can I view it in a different light?

I spent weeks attending meditation retreats and participated in a wide range of spiritual gatherings and events—from Native American traditions to Wicca, from witchcraft to Christianity and Judaism.

Today, I realized something important: you can spend your whole life focused on self-improvement, always thinking there’s something wrong with you. But that’s life—perfection is impossible. Every time you overcome one challenge, another eventually appears. You can end up dwelling on everything and never truly living.

There is such a thing as over-healing—getting so caught up in fixing yourself that you forget to live. From now on, I’m going to focus on living and having fun—enjoying life and accepting that I am good enough and healed enough.