I allow my body to heal internal and external wounds.

*Allow* implies there is a way to interfere, and there is.

Everyone knows what picking at a scab does. Less obvious is the same instinct applied elsewhere: checking the wound eight times a day, retelling the argument to a third friend, prodding the sore memory to see whether it still hurts. It does. It will for longer now.

Getting out of the way is an active skill that feels like doing nothing, which is why it is hard. Cover it. Look at it less. Let the slow work happen where you cannot watch.