This week on WORDS MATTER, Deanna Ley, The Catalytic Coach, shares a deeply personal message about grief, loss, and healing. Seven years after losing her beloved dog Lilly, Deanna revisits the well-intended phrase we all know: 

“Time heals all wounds.” 

Through her story, she offers a more accurate and compassionate way to understand what healing actually asks of us.

What Listeners Will Learn:
• Why “time heals all wounds” leaves out the lived experience of grief
• How healing asks you to live with what happened rather than erase it
• What open wounds, healing wounds, and scars reveal about your journey
• Ways to care for yourself when grief feels close
• Why love and loss can live side by side

Memorable Quotes:
• “Time doesn’t heal every wound. Time gives the wound room to change shape, and it gives us room to change shape around it.”
 • “Healing doesn’t wipe the slate clean. Healing doesn’t erase the story.”
 • “Our brains hold on to moments like this because they’re trying to protect us.”
 • “The goal isn’t to erase it. The goal is to learn how to live with it without letting it take over every part of your being.”
 • “Time doesn’t heal all wounds. It just changes them. The wound closes. The scar fades. But it does stay.”
 • "Somehow, love finds its way through the ache anyway."

This episode walks beside anyone carrying a wound — fresh or longstanding — and reminds you that grief has no timeline, love leaves a lasting imprint, and healing grows in the space between what hurt and what remains.

Your WORDS MATTER, because YOU MATTER.

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