Healing is a choice and it is something that we are all faced with in many moments of our lives. When I say that healing is a choice, I mean that you have to be open to allowing yourself to be healed. When we choose to not heal from an experience, it is a spectrum from extremely traumatic to something we felt like didn't bother us too much. We bottle emotions up or "stuff" them down to where they cannot come out. Thus, resulting in depression, anxiety, substance abuse and ove