The Quiet Work of Healing

Written by Jordan Erickson, MA, LAMFT

Healing doesn’t always look dramatic.

There’s no spotlight. No clear turning point. Sometimes it’s just a person sitting in a room — telling the truth out loud for the first time. No guarantee it will fix anything. No proof it’s “working.” Just the willingness to keep showing up.

That kind of work is easy to overlook.

But it’s also some of the most courageous work a person will ever do.

If you’ve ever wondered whether therapy is enough – or questioned whether anything is actually changing – this is for you.

The Work Most People Never See

We’re taught to think of change as something that happens out there — in policies, movements, systems, bold decisions.

So it’s easy to wonder if sitting in a room and talking is “enough.”

But what I’ve learned — again and again — is that what happens in therapy is not small-scale change. It is origin change. It is the moment the pattern shifts before the action does. The moment someone decides, often quietly and without witnesses, that the next generation will not inherit what they did.

That kind of change doesn’t start loud.

But it doesn’t stay contained, either.

It ripples. Always. In every direction.

If This Is You — You May Not Realize How Big the Work Already Is

Most people doing this work don’t realize that.

They think they’re “just talking.” Or “processing.” Or “trying to figure it out.”

But I want to be very clear about this:

If you are examining your patterns instead of passing them down — you are doing generational work.

If you are choosing honesty over avoidance — you are shifting the future of every relationship you touch.

If you are allowing yourself to become more human, not less — that is world-changing work.

Even if only you can feel it right now.

Especially if only you can feel it right now.

So if the work feels quiet, or slow, or unseen — do not mistake that for insignificance.

What happens in the room may not announce itself.

But it doesn’t stay there.

It lives forward — in the way you speak, love, repair, loosen, soften, choose.

In what your future children may never have to unlearn.

In the kind of world you are already rewriting behind the scenes.

The quiet work of healing is never small.

It is simply the kind that begins before anyone realizes the world is different because of you.

If you’re ready to begin, schedule with Jordan today.