We tend to imagine healing as a moment: the day the pain lifts, the morning everything feels different. In real bodies, it rarely arrives that way.
Tissue reorganizes slowly. A nervous system that has been guarding for years does not stand down in an afternoon. What changes first is usually smaller and quieter — sleeping a little deeper, a movement you stopped thinking about, an hour in the afternoon that felt easier than it used to.
Good weeks are often followed by ordinary ones. That is not a setback; it is the shape most recovery takes.
If progress feels slow, it does not mean nothing is happening. It often means the change is happening at a pace your body can actually keep.