Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

In this week’s video Gap Relief Co-Founder and Co-Director, Megan Taylor, is sitting down to explain one of Gap Relief’s favorite phrases.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

When starting a healing journey or really anything new, it can be a necessity to walk it really slowly at first. Sometimes that can be really frustrating, especially when we’re looking for the relief on the other side of that healing journey.

Sometimes, it might even feel like we take steps forward and then walk those same exact steps backward over and over again. For instance, we might make a new discovery about ourselves in counseling or in a training experience and fully intend to integrate that healing into our daily lives. But life doesn’t always work that way, and we can often fall back into unwanted or familiar patterns and find ourselves needing to go back for more muscle reps of healing.

What is really cool about this process though is that as we go through those steps at a slower pace and sometimes more than one time, the process begins to smooth out. Our systems begin to rewire and our brains literally and physiologically build new pathways around the new steps. Then, as we move forward, we begin to move faster with new muscle memory connected to healing. 

Why? Because the more that we slow down and fully integrate things on the front end, the quicker that process will move on the back end.

Megan encourages us to keep going on our journey. The payoff is worth it as we walk out our healing. And Gap Relief has your back the whole way.