Healing Made Me Sick

Amy Punt
4 min readAug 27, 2022
Photo by Anh Nguyen on Unsplash

In 2020 long-repressed memories of abuse began to emerge. I approached my healing the way I approach everything else, with an unrelenting drive that made me sick.

Healing hurts. In my last post, I detailed how repressed memories feel, but recovery from them can feel worse. How do you know if it’s the good kind of pain, the lancing of a wound, or when it’s you digging around and making the infection worse?

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Amy Punt

Writing about Personal Growth, Trauma, Recovery and the cultural moments that reflect our hidden traumas.