Healing Takes Time

Stoicism For Everyone Podcast · Aug 15, 2026 · 9m

There is a physical wound on my arm that has been healing for weeks. At first, it was raw and painful. I had to keep it covered, protect it, make sure nothing infected it. Then it started to scab over. It itched. I wanted to pick at it, to speed up the process, to make it heal faster. But I knew that picking at it would only make it worse. It would reopen the wound. It would leave a scar. So I let it heal at its own pace. I let the body do what it knows how to do. And now, weeks later, the scabBecome a supporter of this podcast…