You spend your days healing other people, so why can't you heal yourself? Maybe you help patients lose weight while fighting the same battle in your own body. Maybe you chart through chronic pain, or carry anxiety that hums under every shift. Maybe it's depression you hide behind a steady bedside manner, a grief that never quite lifts, or a relationship you can't get free of. And underneath it all is the quiet fear that your wound makes you a fraud.
In this episode of Clinician, Heal Thyself, Vaughn Kohler takes on that fear. Through Thornton Wilder's short play The Angel That Troubled the Waters, Saint Paul's thorn in the flesh, and Henri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer, he makes a surprising case: your wound isn't a disqualification. It may be the very thing that lets you reach the patients no one else can.
You'll also get one simple practice for this week: name your wound, remember who you've helped because of it, and put your own care on the calendar. Keep seeking help, and keep serving. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve.
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