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"You aren't broken-stop trying to fix yourself."

  • Writer: Willow Niemela
    Willow Niemela
  • Nov 15
  • 3 min read

This morning during meditation, my guides gave me a clear message:

“You aren’t broken. Stop trying to fix yourself.”

I was told to share it, because it’s not just for me it’s for so many of us.

How often have you felt like something inside you must be wrong? That if you could just find the right healing, the right practice, the right book, you could finally fix the part of you that feels unworthy, messy, or not enough?

I want you to hear this: you are not broken.

We live in a culture that thrives on the belief that we’re somehow incomplete. More to the point, we are deeply disconnected from nature. There are children growing up in cities who have never experienced the medicine of being among trees, rivers, or wild open sky. We live in a system where stepping into nature is treated as a privilege instead of a birthright.

Even for those of us who can access it, life gets busy. We spend more and more time in front of screens, our attention pulled into devices and AI. Entire industries profit from convincing us that we need fixing. But the truth is this: the parts of you that feel heavy, tender, or jagged are not signs of damage. They are proof of your humanness. They are evidence that you have lived, survived, and carried your spirit through all kinds of weather.

Healing is not about “fixing” yourself. Healing is about remembering who you are beneath the layers of survival and self-doubt. It’s about letting love, presence, and compassion touch the places that have been carrying too much for too long.

One of the clearest mirrors of this truth is found in nature. The tree with the broken branch still grows tall and strong. The river bends around rocks and still flows. The earth carries scars, seasons, and storms, and yet continues to hold beauty, balance, and life. None of it is trying to fix itself. It simply is. And in that being, it thrives.

Something shifts when we allow ourselves to step back into that natural rhythm. If we put down our screens, move our bodies, breathe in the open air, our nervous system begins to reset. The body remembers safety. The shoulders drop. The breath deepens. The mind quiets. In nature, our body knows how to return to balance, we just have to give it the chance.

I know for me, when I am in the woods among the trees or walking by water, my whole being exhales. I feel calm, happy, and deeply at home. Nature helps me remember that I already belong here. That same calm and happiness is already within us the earth just reflects it back.

When you stop trying to “fix” yourself, you create space to simply be with yourself, the way you would sit by a river or rest under a tree. That is where real transformation happens not through force or repair, but through gentleness, presence, and truth.

You are not a broken object.

You are a living soul.

You do not need fixing. You need remembering. You need compassion. You need the courage to honor your own wholeness, even in the midst of your healing journey.

So the next time you feel yourself spiraling into “what’s wrong with me,” pause. Step outside. Put your feet on the earth. Let your body exhale and your spirit soften. Whisper to yourself:

Nothing is wrong with me.

I am whole.

I am enough.

That is the deepest truth.


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