I recently wrote that “I haven’t met a single person with an easy life.”

But I’ve met many whose pain became the beginning of something luminous.

Summer brings warmth, but for many, it’s also a season when quiet reflection surfaces, and old wounds speak louder.

Rumi, the mystic, poet, and teacher of the soul, reminds us that healing often begins in the very place where we were hurt.

As a therapist, I witness this light breaking through every day. Don’t delay opening yourself up to let the light in through the crack of your pain.