Healing Slower Than You Wanted

12 min

Feeling behind can turn every repeated struggle into proof that nothing has changed. A slow, steady reflection on healing as a switchback path, where familiar gates appear again from a different height. Setbacks become dips in the trail rather than evidence of failure, with room for impatience, shame and the honest wish to be further along.

← Back self compassion
Eleanor Vance
Your storyteller
Eleanor Vance
Warm, low, unhurried

Warm and unhurried, with a low steady ease, the slow exhale at the end of a long day.

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About this session

Healing Slower Than You Wanted is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the self compassion collection, narrated by Eleanor Vance.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.