Healing Doesn’t Make You Untouchable

Nervous System Healing
Written By Kimberly Powers

You’re allowed to be wise and still need support.

There’s a story many sensitive, deep-feeling women carry:

If I’m really healed…
I won’t spiral anymore.
I’ll never doubt myself.
I’ll always be regulated, grateful, empowered, self-sourced.

But here’s the truth:

Healing doesn’t make you untouchable.
It makes you more touchable.
More honest. More porous. More you.

✧ 01. There’s No Badge for “Most Healed”

Healing isn’t a competition.
It’s a remembering.

You will still:

  • Get overwhelmed sometimes

  • Feel tender after setting a boundary

  • Question your worth in moments of vulnerability

  • Cry in unexpected places

  • Need to ask for help

This doesn’t mean you’ve regressed.
It means you’re in relationship with your aliveness.

✧ 02. Being Regulated Isn’t Being Emotionless

A regulated nervous system doesn’t mean flatline calm.
It means capacity.

It means:
“I can feel this without abandoning myself.”
“I can come back to center — even if I wobble.”
“I can be with the feeling instead of fixing it.”

Tears don’t mean you’re broken.
They mean your body trusts you now.

✧ 03. You Don’t Have to Be the Strong One Anymore

When your identity is built around being the one who holds it all — healing can feel like failure.

But you weren’t born to be everyone’s safe place.
You were born to be your own.

Letting yourself be supported is not a regression.
It’s a sacred recalibration.

You don’t have to be the healer to be worthy of healing.

✧ 04. The Myth of the Untouchable Woman

Social media loves the woman who is:

  • Always in her power

  • Never triggered

  • Endlessly magnetic

  • Constantly manifesting

But that’s not a human.
That’s a performance.

You are allowed to be wise and tender.
Embodied and in-process.
Empowered and still healing.

Wholeness is not perfection.
It’s presence.

✧ 05. A Somatic Moment: The Permission Breath

Close your eyes.
Place one hand on your belly, one on your chest.
Breathe into both hands at once.

Ask softly:
“What part of me still thinks I need to have it all together?”

Listen without fixing.
Hold her without judgment.
Exhale.

This is how healing deepens: with permission.

✧ 06. A Sacred Invitation

You’re not behind. You’re not broken. You’re just becoming.
Over and over again.

If you’re longing for a gentle space to reconnect with your inner wisdom — to be held, seen, and supported as you soften back into yourself…

The Soft Return Series is a great place to land from here.

Because healing isn’t becoming untouchable.
It’s becoming more fully human.

✿ Explore the The Soft Return → HERE.

Always with love and care,

Kimberly

Kimberly Powers
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