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Danea Horn is the author of Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Coping with the Stress of Illness (Conari Press, August 2013). Visit her at www.ChronicResilience.com for more tips to live gracefully with challenging health and receive a free gift. You can also connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

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You Don’t Need to Fix Yourself to Be Healed

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“Growth begins when we begin to accept our weaknesses.” -Jean Vanier

I used to believe the word “healed” had a very specific meaning. In my mind, it described a state of perfection that always looked very different from the chronic health challenges I endured.

Being born with VACTERL Association, a birth disorder that causes malformations in six of the body’s systems, meant that I entered the world needing a lot of fixes. There were surgeries, hospitalizations, treatments, and medications aimed at perfecting something inherently imperfect.

The Search

I grew up searching. To be like everyone else. For a cure. For …