An Unexpected Part of the Healing Journey — Loss

Chelsea Catherine
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJul 21, 2021

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The other day during a therapy session, I said suddenly, “Healing is hard.”

“It is,” my therapist, J, replied. “It can be scary to leave what we know.”

J asked me if I could elaborate on the parts of the healing journey I was finding more difficult. I wanted to say, “Everything,” but in that moment I was feeling a particular strain, the one that comes…

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Chelsea Catherine
Human Parts

Chelsea Catherine writes sometimes. They have two fun gay books available here: chelseacatherinewriter.com.