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When traditional healing demands forgiveness you cannot give

I started working with a curandero for depression, but he says my healing requires forgiving my abusive father, and I'm not ready for that kind of forgiveness even if it means staying sick.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Indigenous healing framework requires emotional and spiritual work that exceeds current psychological capacity, creating tension between healing desire and protective boundaries.

Ideas that help explain it
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