Me too, MUE. I feel like, when I get to this point, I will know that healing has really really happened. Of course, the journey is important and valuable too, but..... my goal is to become a person who wears my past proudly, or, at the very least, has no shame in it....not because I am proud of things that I've done, or unaffected by things that were done to me, but because I *did* survive and learn and grow from each and every event, and this IS something to be proud of. I want to be at a place where others' reactions will not cause my own strength to waver. I hope that someday we can both get there.