May 2025 - GGCN Magazine Michele Margaret Juliet

Michele Margaret Telfer

Healing from the Inside Out

There’s a term used in wound care: debridement. It refers to the careful removal of damaged tissue so that a wound can heal cleanly, from the inside out. It’s the opposite of letting the surface seal over too soon. When we rush the closure, we risk trapping infection beneath the skin, leaving thick, raised scars and often a hidden ache that lingers. But when the wound is carefully opened, cleaned, and supported from its deepest layer, healing can occur in the most natural and seamless way.

As a child, I didn’t understand this. I remember the impatience, picking at scabs, hoping to reveal new skin before it was ready. I didn’t know that a wound’s method of healing mattered. It could affect how I felt in that area for years to come. But the body holds wisdom.

And so does the heart.

Because this, I’ve come to realize, is exactly how our emotional and spiritual healing works too.

We live in a culture that worships strength, speed, and surface appearances. We are told to get over it, move on, stay positive, keep smiling. And so we soldier on, wearing our pain like invisible armor. But beneath the polished surface, many of us are still wounded. Still raw. Still carrying the silent ache of things that were never given the time or space to heal properly.

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