What if healing is not actually about getting rid of parts of yourself? This feels like one of the deepest distinctions in any healing process. So much healing work, even in conscious and spiritual spaces, is still subtly (or overtly) oriented around elimination. Release the wound. Clear the trauma. Purge the emotion. Transcend the ego. Heal the inner child. Become untriggered. And beneath much of it is often an unconscious question: “How do I stop being affected by this part