Outside Solutions to Internal Suffering Will Never Work — The Healing Is Within
We live in a world that constantly offers us solutions. Feeling low? There’s a pill for that. Feeling lost? Take a course. Feeling unloved? Find a partner. Overwhelmed? Buy yourself a vacation, a new outfit, a new “you.”
But what if none of that really works?
What if the ache you feel, the fear you carry, the emptiness you sense — isn’t something you can fix with something external?
Here’s the truth most of us avoid:
Outside solutions will never heal internal suffering. The solutions are — and have always been — inside you. Looking within isn’t glamorous. It’s not always comfortable. But it’s where true transformation begins.
It’s in the quiet moments of radical honesty.
In sitting with yourself when you’re triggered — instead of running away.
In listening to the part of you that’s hurting — instead of silencing it.
It’s not about fixing yourself. It’s about meeting yourself. There is nothing wrong with seeking help, joy, pleasure, or peace from the outside.
But when it comes to your deepest suffering —
When it comes to the parts of you that ache, that long, that grieve —
Know this:
The solution isn’t out there. It never was.
The healing is inside.
The truth is inside.
You are the medicine you've been waiting for.
With love,
Marine Sélénée