Coping Case Files: Welcome to the Plateau: Navigating the Flat Lands of the Healing Journey
Wed Jan 28 2026
If you’re on a healing journey, you know the struggle of the steep and perilous upward climb. If you’ve been on it for a while, you likely also know the sense of accomplishment and pride you feel when you reach the summit of a challenge and can see how far you’ve come. We all know these peaks and valleys are integral and repeating parts of the journey, but if you’ve been on your journey for a very long time, we bet you’ve encountered something no one warned you about or prepared you for: the plateaus.
If you stay on the path for long enough, there will be moments of deafening stillness, when you can see everything you’ve accomplished but there’s seemingly nothing on the horizon and you don’t know what to do next. This is the no man’s land of the healing journey. You can’t go back and you’re not done, but you also don’t know where you are or where you’re headed, you just know you didn’t expect to be here.
So, what do you do? Join us for a discussion of what the view is like from the plateau and how to choose a path forward into the uncharted territory of your healing journey.
If you’re enjoying the podcast we’d love it if you could help us spread the word by telling your friends, subscribing to the podcast, and leaving a rating or review. If you’d like to support us on Patreon we are at www.patreon.com/differentfunctional Thanks so much for listening and remember, different does not mean defective
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If you’re on a healing journey, you know the struggle of the steep and perilous upward climb. If you’ve been on it for a while, you likely also know the sense of accomplishment and pride you feel when you reach the summit of a challenge and can see how far you’ve come. We all know these peaks and valleys are integral and repeating parts of the journey, but if you’ve been on your journey for a very long time, we bet you’ve encountered something no one warned you about or prepared you for: the plateaus. If you stay on the path for long enough, there will be moments of deafening stillness, when you can see everything you’ve accomplished but there’s seemingly nothing on the horizon and you don’t know what to do next. This is the no man’s land of the healing journey. You can’t go back and you’re not done, but you also don’t know where you are or where you’re headed, you just know you didn’t expect to be here. So, what do you do? Join us for a discussion of what the view is like from the plateau and how to choose a path forward into the uncharted territory of your healing journey. If you’re enjoying the podcast we’d love it if you could help us spread the word by telling your friends, subscribing to the podcast, and leaving a rating or review. If you’d like to support us on Patreon we are at www.patreon.com/differentfunctional Thanks so much for listening and remember, different does not mean defective