Self-Transformation: A Lifetime Process of Healing

Vanesha Febrilly
3 min readSep 18, 2020
A photo I took at my rooftop :)

Picking from some of the spiritualists I’ve learned and watched, that a healing process is a lifetime process. And, what I did believe that I wasn’t able to be truly transformed if I‘m not healed completely. While signing up myself in a lot of overthinking and over-analyzing something that I couldn’t control, I forgot how to actually breathe. I forgot how to live properly. I forgot to manifest the motivational force within myself; instead, I was too focused on enforcing myself with all the self-blaming, regretting things, and constantly focusing on the toxic traits that ate myself up also for a constant battle.

I tried to identify “what is actually going on” and digging so much deeper. Nurture the Self, instead of repeatedly being so harsh and telling that this was all my fault.

All the stuff you’ve done and all the mistakes that probably came into the head of yours might not always mean something bad for you. The fact that life is a constant place to learn, we gain, we lose, we go up and down, we move, we make mistakes, and we also make it a little better every day.

On the process of transformation, take a step to really identify what is actually a thing you wished you can transform. Instead of pointing the mistake, learn to accept that something might be the one that bothers you a lot so you find yourself wishing it could be wiped off from your feed. By learning means that you are introspecting and walking through a process — your own process.

And yes, it is different for anyone. It’s not like my own progression must be the same as what the spiritualist told me to but find your own process. Learn your own truths, learn your own authenticity.

As we are now stuck in one place, I believe there was a time when you’re wondering lots of unrealistic stuff that might occur in your past without you were even realizing it. I didn’t know much about other people’s experiences, but I got such a privilege to learn myself enough these days and turning it into the very beginning of my transformation process. Some of the thoughts that I didn’t realize I could let them go. It all made me think that maybe it is not just because of the situation that we are facing now that forcing us to make a little change… It just happened right away for us individually when it is the right time to. Well, at least it is for me. I still don’t know about anyone else, but I hope you could always be there for yourself.

Self-transformation leads you not into an easier situation to live, but more of how you can still enjoy yourself, your freedom, even in a very hard one in life. Self-transformation leads you to your own version of authenticity. At the end of the day, you are the one who decides yourself what is working for you in carrying out the self-transformation. And, the fact that you cannot be healed completely forever in your life, just a little mindset that probably can be slowed you down a bit. Life is a constant battle that we might be questioning ourselves, how do we get here in the first place? But the fact that some of the life questions aren’t meant to get all the answers. We just got here, sent down by the Universe not always for a specific purpose. Rather, make your own purpose.

It is hard sometimes to digest the truth about ourselves because things might be falling down every time we are trying to embark on the scratch. But healing is a lifetime process, and for the way that you might be doing a little better stuff everyday… acknowledge it. Embrace it. Make a credit to yourself. It means you’re progressing. And if sometimes things aren’t working smoothly, it’s also a part of the process. Still, embrace it. Be super conscious of whatever the outcomes you might face in the process of your self-transformation. And knowing the key of this all is not to perfecting yourself… But to live on your most authentic self. And acknowledge the fact that you have not done anything wrong… You’re just want to transform to be a better human being every day.

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Vanesha Febrilly

she/they - i studied politics and gender studies. i talk about feminism, gender equality, politics and mental health. welcome to my brain dump!